Claudia Tennant

Claudia Tennant is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work dissects the visual codes of pop and postmodern culture. By fragmenting color, form, and media, she highlights the contradictions embedded in contemporary life. Her recent practice investigates the entangled relationship between precolonial African histories and present-day constructions of identity. Combining painting with digital media such as NFTs, she creates a dialogue between ancestral narratives and current debates in postcolonial thought, where traditional and digital modes of expression collide. Her works often employ layering, collage, and material juxtapositions—integrating drawing, text, stitching, and fabric remnants. This approach produces compositions that resemble complex maps or palimpsests, where memory, culture, and politics converge. By weaving fragments of language and imagery into dense surfaces, Tennant reimagines how history is remembered and rewritten, offering viewers spaces to reflect on both personal and collective heritage. Through these strategies, Tennant develops a practice that is at once visually opulent and conceptually rigorous, bridging material experimentation with critical inquiry into the legacies of colonialism and the shaping of contemporary identity. ...