Adebusola Ramsay is a visual artist based in East Renfrewshire. Her painting and printmaking practice has developed over the last two decades. She works primarily with acrylics and employs evocative colour contrasts, textural details and different forms of mark making to create new perspectives in irregular line and colour patterns. Her work is often inspired by weaving and pattern making of traditional African cloths, such as Aso Oke, Kente and Adire. In tandem with painting, over the last 5 years, Adebusola has been researching the history of chattel slavery, processes of racialisaiton and racism and Black radical tradition in resistance to oppressive structures and modes of being.

Adebusola is one of 11 artists taking part in the Crisis Residency Programme, 2020/21. The studio spaces at Cove Park will enable Adebusola to work on paintings and to reconnect with her practice in a new and different environment. In relation to her approach to this residency she has written, ‘My practice is centred around an expression of thinking through my experiences. Based on the naming of this residency, I am considering the awareness of the ‘crisis’ of the last 9 months, global and local management and response to public health crises; inequality in access to care, movement, space, food, security, life, the cycle of Black radical resistance and oppressive machinations of power… How do we repair the damage and trauma of these crises?’ The residency will also offer time for further research and reading, making colour patterns, to think, observe, walk, sleep, and be in the landscape during this time.’

Image: Adebusola Ramsay, ‘Twists and Turns’, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 91.44 x 121.92cm (photography by Sekai Machache)