{{Short description|Ugandan-British artist (born 1958)}} {{Infobox person | name = Said Adrus | image = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1958}} | birth_place = Kampala, Uganda | education = Nottingham Trent University | occupation = Artist | years_active = 1985–present | known_for = Multimedia art, mixed-media art }}
'''Said Adrus''' (born 1958) is an Ugandan-born British multidisciplinary artist.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":1" /> Adrus has lived in the UK, Switzerland, and other countries in Europe.<ref name=":1" />
== Biography == Adrus was born to Gujarati Muslim parents<ref name=":0" /> in 1958 in Kampala, Uganda,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Diaspora-artists: View details|url=http://new.diaspora-artists.net/display_item.php?id=150&table=artists|access-date=2022-01-19|website=new.diaspora-artists.net|archive-date=2022-07-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707140758/http://new.diaspora-artists.net/display_item.php?id=150&table=artists|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":02" /> in what was at the time known as British East Africa.<ref name=":1" /> His family were there through being part of the British colonial project of moving South Asian people to East Africa to build railways.<ref name=":1" /> They then moved to Switzerland, where they still live.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Adrus then moved to Britain,<ref name=":0" /> due to Idi Amin expelling the descendants of Gujarati indentured labourers, many of whom moved to the UK.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-08-06|title=Uganda: Forty Years After Idi Amin Expelled Asians|url=https://www.ibtimes.com/uganda-forty-years-after-idi-amin-expelled-asians-739228|access-date=2022-01-19|website=International Business Times}}</ref>
Adrus has a BA(Hons) degree in Fine Art awarded by the Nottingham Trent Polytechnic.<ref name=":1" /> He is a polyglot, speaking German, French, Hindi, Gujarati and English.<ref name=":0" />
During the 1980s, his imagery has been described as computer paintings on canvas.<ref name=":0" /> He later turned to mixed media and multi-media ways of working, experimenting with the moving image and screen projection.<ref name=":1" /> Since 2015, he has 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=‘Entry prohibited…’ features artists of The Other {{!}} EAPGROUP {{!}} Eastern Art Report International Magazine of the Arts Founded 1989 {{!}} News, Articles, Features, Book and Exhibition Reviews, Listings |url=http://easternartreport.net/entry-prohibited-features-artists-of-the-other/ |access-date=2022-01-19 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":0" />
== Works ==
=== Group exhibitions === * 1985: ''Eastern Views: Works by Young Asian Artists from the Midlands''<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|url=https://www.arts.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0036/199467/Recordings-A-Select-Bibliography-of-Contemporary-African,-Afro-Caribbean-and-Asian-British-Art2.pdf|title=Recordings: A Select Bibliography of Contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British Art|publisher=The Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA) in collaboration with the Chelsea College of Arts|year=1996|isbn=1899846069|location=London|pages=43|language=English}}</ref> * 1985: ''Three Asian Artists''<ref name=":02" /> * 1988: ''Black Art: Plotting the Course''<ref name=":02" /> * 1988: ''Paintings by Said Adrus - Ceramics by Louise Block'', Horizon Gallery, London.<ref name=":02" /> * 1990: ''In Focus''<ref name=":02" /> * 1990: ''In Sight, in View''<ref name=":02" /> * 1990: "''Let the Canvas Come to Life with Dark Faces''"<ref name=":02" /> * 1991: ''History and Identity: Seven Painters''<ref name=":02" /> * 1992: ''Black People and the British Flag''<ref name=":02" /> * 1992: ''Crossing Black Waters''<ref name=":02" /> * 1993: ''Transition of Riches''<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Adrus|first=Said|url=https://libsearch.arts.ac.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=52014|title=Transition of riches|last2=Akmut|first2=Nilofar|last3=Burman|first3=Chila Kumari|last4=Chuhan|first4=Jagjit|last5=Ghosh|first5=Amal|last6=Natt|first6=Sarbjit|last7=Patel|first7=Anuradha|last8=Patti|first8=Symrath|publisher=Birmingham City Museum & Art Gallery; Smith Art Gallery & Museum; Southampton Art Gallery.|year=1993|location=Birmingham|pages=46–49, 55|language=English}}</ref> *2008: ''Next We Change Earth''<ref>{{Cite web|title=NEXT WE CHANGE EARTH|url=http://www.nae.org.uk/exhibition/next-we-change-earth/12|access-date=2022-01-19|website=www.nae.org.uk|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Diaspora-artists: View details|url=http://new.diaspora-artists.net/display_item.php?id=855&table=artefacts|access-date=2022-01-19|website=new.diaspora-artists.net|archive-date=2022-01-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121102127/http://new.diaspora-artists.net/display_item.php?id=855&table=artefacts|url-status=dead}}</ref> *2011: ''Recreating the Archive''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-10 |title=SAID ADRUS - Recreating the Archive (EN) - BRS |url=https://berner-rassismusstammtisch.ch/2021/09/10/recreating-the-archive-en/ |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=Berner Rassismusstammtisch |language=de-DE}}</ref>
=== Reviews, articles, and texts === * 1990: "It Ain't Ethnic", ''Black Arts in London'', no. 128,(1–30 September), 5.<ref name=":02" />
=== Talks and events === * 2016: Straight Outta Gyri<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ausstellungsraum Klingental|url=https://ausstellungsraum.ch/veranstaltungen/sch/#event-1774|access-date=2022-01-19|website=ausstellungsraum.ch}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=SCH – K A D I A T O U D I A L L O|url=https://kadiatoudiallo.com/sch/|access-date=2022-01-19|language=en-US}}</ref>
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