Sadé Adeshola Sarumi (born 1999, England) is a London-based artist whose practice weaves together poetry, visual art, and storytelling to expose contradictions within the human experience. Using memory as both material and method, Sarumi’s work explores sapphism, obsession, anxiety, and interpersonal connection. Through emotional timelines, fractured recollections, and imagined dialogue, she navigates the shifting spaces between reality and performance.

Bold, semi-clothed, otherworldly figures define her visual aesthetic. Emerging from a place of immediacy, her pieces are never pre-drawn but arrive fully formed, shaped by a studied awareness of the performative worlds they inhabit. These are neurodivergent spaces, where inherited social scripts are unraveled and new emotional architectures are built. Through these figures, she interrogates the curation of identity, the slippage between public and private selves, and what it means to unmask. Her work oscillates between confession and concealment, often looping or lingering on a single unresolved feeling. Words and visuals fold into each other, mimicking the learned behaviours used to survive environments that feel psychologically inhospitable. In this way, her paintings become sites of both camouflage and revelation.

Sadé has held curatorial roles at Tate Britain and UCL, contributing to exhibitions including The 80s: Photographing Britain, and playing a key role in developing UCL’s art collection and public programming. She is also the founder of an independent art club with over 1,000 members, fostering connection through the arts beyond institutional frameworks.