— About
Destinie Adelakun is a photographer, painter and writer originally from the sun-kissed groves of West Africa and South India.
As a contemporary multi-disciplinary Canadian visual artist, her work extends from mixed- media, painting, photography to film and sculpture; that explore topics ranging from African history, mythology, and spirituality.
She utilizes individuals in her work as a personification of principles and ideas, and re- illustrating African and Indian mythological tales. She celebrates women of the African diaspora and plays with adornment that embodies the creative direction of the work.
Her goal as an artist is empowering women of color, through re-writing various mythological/folklore events via the means of photography and painting.
Her theological mythologies and ideologies are demonstrated through the body of work in forms of photography, digital art, painting and film. The self-taught artist was born in Lagos, Nigeria and raised in Nagpur India, and she currently lives and works in New York City.
She received a B.A in Fashion Production in 2015 from The London College of Fashion. Although Destinie was trained in fashion production, she is also a photographer and works experimentally across many mediums. Her works are inspired conceptually by the ideas of race, spirituality, African/Indian religions, identity, sexuality, theology, and history.
She has curated several art shows in the New York region and recently transitioned to showing her work of arts and photography. Her work has been published in Kinfolk and Water magazine. Also has showcased her work at the exhibition “Negritude” Arts East New York Gallery, 2018
Canadian Women Artist Award Recipient 2020
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