This striking nude study is the work of the rising London-based artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, whose vivid, large-scale paintings investigate ideas of diaspora, identity and geographical displacement. These topics are close to Hwami’s heart; she was forced to leave her native Zimbabwe for South Africa at the age of nine, before moving to the UK capital when she was seventeen. Her process involves photographic experimentation and the creation of digital collages from a plethora of visual sources, from family photos to images found online, which she then translates into “bold afro-futuristic visions” (Gasworks, London) rendered in intensely pigmented paint.
