Adrianne Williams is a Multidisciplinary Artist, working with themes of culture and the individual. Her paintings, installations and video works explore her Caribbean ancestry, while often highlighting ideas of pop culture and culture clash. Williams completed her BFA in Drawing at the Alberta University of the Arts in 2007. She has shown her work in Calgary, Edmonton, Italy and Spain.

Adrianne’s artwork connects to the theme of Caribbean Girlhood through an exploration of identity and ancestry. As a Canadian multidisciplinary artist of Caribbean descent, she uses large-scale portraiture painting to examine how girlhood is shaped by heritage and memory. Her work often depicts people she loves, grounding her work in intimacy and lived experience. These figures become vessels through which she explores the human condition. Caribbean girlhood, in Adrianne’s work, is not a singular narrative; it exists in moments of vulnerability and strength.

The physicality of her surfaces mirrors the emotional and historical depth. These themes are central to how Caribbean girls come to understand themselves and their place in the world. Being born and raised in Calgary while carrying Caribbean ancestry positions her practice within the diasporic experience. Adrianne’s work considers what it means to navigate girlhood across geographies; between Canada and the Caribbean, between tradition and assimilated culture. Caribbean girlhood, in this sense, becomes a space of resilience, self-definition, and reclamation.

Ultimately, her practice honours Caribbean girlhood as a formative, powerful, and evolving state — one that holds memory, resistance, tenderness, and transformation.