Jaachinma Duru
(b. 1998, Lagos, Nigeria)
Duru’s practice centers on figurative painting that subtly drifts toward the surreal, exploring memory, belonging, and the emotional landscapes of diaspora.Working primarily in oils and acrylics, following a decade-long hiatus – Duru reflects on themes of displacement, connection and distance. Her work captures the feeling of missing a home never fully inhabited, and the quiet dissonance of existing between worlds. She seeks to reconcile fading memories with lived experience while reconnecting with imagination and artistic instinct.Duru has begun exhibiting and selling her work across London, with works featured in independent Shoreditch brand Oneironaut. Group exhibitions include NICOLA Arts: No Limits Gallery, Of Nazareth Gallery, and the Hogan Lovells Black History Month Gala 2025.
Abundance, 2024
Acrylic on canvas 40x50 cm
Ode to Things That Shine Bright Before They Go, 2025
Oil on canvas 60x80 cm
Apple of Sodom, 2025
Oil on canvas 60x80 cm
Birds of Paradise I, 2025
Oil and collage on canvas 60x80cm
Birds of Paradise II, 2025
Oil and collage on canvas 60x80cm
More paintings in progress!