About
Throughout my adult life I have sought to go willingly into the unknown. This is an ongoing recognition that embracing my own vulnerabilities allows me to fully release my spirit, and in turn, my imagination.
I don’t know where my life, or my work, will take me. Like my paintings sometimes things work out and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes relationships are in conflict and yet manage to hang together. Many questions have no final answer. This is the process: to somehow manage to be in the deep end of what is not being seen. Isn’t this where we experience the creative chaos necessary to allow ourselves to see what is possible? Isn't this how we grow? Isn't this how we awaken?
My job as an artist is ultimately to listen. I then respond. I play. I express, hide, repress, awaken, retreat, and express, again. Each mark, each gesture, is intuitive - a moment of experimentation that begets another. Each artwork is the unknown communicating itself into being.
BIO
Adelaide (b.1964) is an American/British artist living and working in the countryside north of Glasgow. She holds a B.F.A. in Theatre Studies and a M.Ed. in childhood education.
Her professional creative career began in the U.S. (Boston) in the 1990’s as a sole proprietor textile artist where for many years she designed and created large installations and bespoke homeware and fashion accessories for local shops and interior decorators.
Her move to the U.K in 2009 saw her more traditional textile practice transition into creating multi-faceted mixed media works, a shift that was partly inspired by several lengthy visits, and a six-month living period in Arctic Norway (Tromsø). In 2017 after taking a course at the Glasgow School of Art she began painting, which is now her primary practice.
Recent exhibitions include the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (2023 and 2025); Irving Open 2025, Irving Gallery, Oxford; Lido Open 2024, Lido Stores, Margate; Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Exhibition (2024), Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; and her first solo show ‘Somewhere Between the Soul and the Centre of the Earth,’ at iota, Glasgow, in May, 2024.
PUBLICATIONS
Create Magazine,Women's Issue 2020 (web version), Honourable mention
Thalia Magazine, The Fragment Issue, September 2019
Art North ISSUE 2 | SUMMER 2019 Ripped and Torn