Home is Where my Feet Land : Ofunne Azinge

Ofunne Azinge’s practice merges painting, photography, and image transfer to challenge the politics of representation. Raised between Nigeria and the UK in over eleven homes, Azinge first used photography to process memory and belonging. Returning to painting, she developed a hybrid technique layering personal and community photographs into textured compositions that integrate the individual and the collective.

Azinge’s work centres on Black women, expanding from a tribute to those who raised her into an ongoing project documenting women met on the streets of London and, eventually, worldwide. Many contribute personal images to the transfers, making each portrait a collaborative act of agency and admiration.

Azinge’s works draw on photographic language, placing women in poses historically coded as masculine, subverting traditional power structures. The artist refuses to use white in painting skin, instead building tones from blue and purple, rejecting whiteness as a default in portraiture and affirming the depth and dignity of her subjects.

Through this rethinking of portraiture - its symbols, its subjects and their poses - Azinge builds a visual community of women, rooted in admiration, strength, and empowerment.