Said Adrus

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Said Adrus
Born1958 (age 6465)
Education Nottingham Trent University
OccupationArtist
Years active1985-present
Known forMultimedia art, mixed media art

Said Adrus (born 1958) is an Ugandan-born British multidisciplinary artist. [1] [2] Adrus has lived in the UK, Switzerland, and other countries in Europe. [2]

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Biography

Adrus was born to Gujarati Muslim parents [3] in 1958 in Kampala, Uganda, [2] [1] in what was at the time known as ‘British East Africa’. [2] His family moved there being part of the British colonial project of moving South Asian people to East Africa to build railways. [2] They then moved to Switzerland, where they still live. [3] [2] Adrus then moved to Britain, [3] due to Idi Amin expelling the descendents of Gujarati indentured labourers, many of whom moved to the UK. [2] [4]

Adrus has a BA(Hons) in Fine Art awarded by the Nottingham Trent Polytechnic. [2] He is a polyglot, speaking German, French, Hindi, Gujarati and English. [3]

During the 1980s, his imagery has been described as computer paintings on canvas. [3] He later turned to mixed media and multi-media ways of working, experimenting with the moving image and screen projection. [2] Since 2015, he's been combining his digital media work with various materials that allude to his voyage from African and Asian coastlines to the Western hemisphere, describing migration and emigration in the modern setting. [5]

He references Andy Warhol as an influence to his collage work, comparing Warhol's parodying of Western art conventions to his pushing of the boundaries of painting while keeping its elements. [3]

Works

Group exhibitions

Reviews, articles, and texts

Talks and events

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