Christian Hiadzi is a Ghana-born painter based in London who worked for nearly a decade in architecture, design and engineering before turning to painting. He has exhibited at the Reclaim Award show in Cologne (2021) and in London galleries, and names Francis Bacon and Anselm Kiefer among his influences. In his stylised portraits, vivid Ghana-inspired colours meet monochrome backgrounds, and faces filled with abstract imagery reveal the complexity of human thought.
Christian Hiadzi is a contemporary African painter and trained architect, born in Ghana and based in London. He spent nearly a decade working in architecture, design and engineering before devoting himself fully to painting. His work combines figurative, stylised compositions with strict lines, vivid colours inspired by his native Ghana, influences from the world of fashion and, often, monochrome backgrounds. His portraits explore the conflicts and complexity of human thought, serving as a way of observing the human soul. Facial contours filled with abstract imagery challenge the imagination and invite the viewer to look beyond the obvious. Hiadzi sees his paintings as a means of rejecting the everyday and rebelling against the archetypes and status quo of contemporary society. His main influences include J. M. W. Turner, Francis Bacon, Anselm Kiefer and the fashion designer Alexander McQueen. His works have been shown at the Reclaim Award exhibition in Cologne (2021), at Leyden Gallery and Cylinder Gallery in London (2017) and at other venues. His practice has been featured in Afropunk, ART Habens and Brogue Magazine. At TUMO Gallery his paintings were presented in the exhibition “FACE TO FACE”.
