Brian Amadi

Brian Amadi is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and tattooist based in Newfoundland.

With a background in visual art, criminology, and public policy, Brian blends fine line tattooing, filmmaking, and painting to explore identity, Blackness, and belonging. He is the founder of Fawk Your Walls, Rebels at the walls and The Art of Being Black. His work has exhibited locally and internationally, including at The Rooms, Eastern Edge, and the Canadian Embassy in Portugal. A poet and advocate, Brian’s art bridges personal narrative with collective history, often using art as a tool for transformation, resistance and social cohesion. Ultimately, he aims to use his work to reflect the current systems of social organization.