Ade Adesina was born in Nigeria in 1980 and now lives in Aberdeen, Scotland. He studied printmaking at Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, graduating in 2012. Ade has held artist residencies at Eton College, Highland Print Studio, Glasgow print Studio and Grays School of Art. He is a Royal Scottish Academician and member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Arts.
He is a traditional printmaker, painter and sculptor with a modern twist, working mostly with linocut, etching, woodcarving, and oil.
His work aims to highlight the continual damage caused by things such as deforestation, the politics of energy consumption, and endangered wild species within the earth's wonderful landscapes.
Ade's practice is influenced by his experiences of travel and the imagery that he encounters. In recent years he has spent time in Italy, Nigeria, Germany, America, Dubai, Canada, and the Scottish Islands. He tries to immerse himself in different cultures and collect a variety of imagery to use in his next body of work. He enjoys researching and visualizing the difference between countries both historically and culturally. His ideas come from the places that he has visited and he also sources information from documentaries and current affairs.