Adolphus Washington is a Black American and native New Yorker who currently resides in London. As a lover of history and politics, his work seeks to capture the sojourn, culture, and sensibility of the Black American experience with a view to sensitize his audience to the 400 years plus of protracted struggle to be considered human, as well as American.

Adolphus works primarily with collage, believing it to be the most democratic medium that best embodies the improvisatory nature of Black American culture. Like those before him, forced to make something out of nothing, his limited materials lend to transformation and innovation, further adding to a culture he describes as having been created in free-fall.

Adolphus showcases the richness of Black American culture by depicting historical events, as well as the reimagining of these, and evidenced by the colors, shapes and symbolism used in his work, infuses the spirit of jazz and hip hop into his creations. A big believer in the power of specificity, his work focuses and champions nuance, confronting his audience with the thorny and complex issues related to descendants of US chattel slavery. He also brings to the fore Black American myth and spirituality and other lesser known or spoken narratives, linking and contextualizing these in an attempt to enrich understanding and inspire greater appreciation of the fullness of the Black American experience and expression.

Considering his work to have an advocacy component, he intends for his work to spark conversation, interest in deeper learning and ultimately, action toward reparative justice for his people.