Voices across continents.

Cape Coast, Ghana

Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist and Civil Engineer (b.1994, Cape Coast). Sources discarded second-hand clothing from Accra's Kantamanto Market and landfills, transforming it through dyeing and layering into sculptural paintings that explore waste colonialism.

Delta State, Nigeria (lives and works in Lagos)

Nigerian visual artist (b.1996) from Delta State, working from Lagos. Considers himself an art historian, connecting ancient Benin Kingdom traditions to contemporary identity through portraiture and figurative compositions.

Takoradi, Ghana

Ghanaian artist known as 'Fishman'. For over two decades has painted ocean life and the plastic crisis from Takoradi, incorporating fishing nets and beach plastic into large-scale canvases.

Ghana

Ghanaian artist working with textile-based contemporary practice; collaborator on the Makers United residency and HTHABW project alongside Emmanuel Tieku.

Kommetjie & Scarborough, Cape Town, South Africa (grew up in Plettenberg Bay)

Cape Town-based artist who sculpts intuitive works from ocean plastic collected on her local beaches. First solo show in 2024; current work exhibited in London and Cape Town galleries.

Ghana

Ghanaian painter and musician (b.1983); originally an autodidact, also lead vocalist of the Agorsor Band. Her work glorifies the African Knowledge System using mathematical symbols and childlike naivety.

Ghana

One of Ghana's foremost contemporary artists, with works in private collections worldwide. His emotive imagery has been shown across Ghana, Europe, the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.

Born and raised in the Volta region of Ghana; lives and works in Accra

Sculptor and portrait artist from Ghana's Volta region (38 yo at time of master catalogue, est. born ~1987), now based in Accra. Hyper-realistic ballpoint pen portraits and a celebrated Porsche commission series.

Ghana (Accra)

Revered Ghanaian artist (b.1978), graduate of Ghanatta College of Arts. Combines artistic practice with monthly art teaching at the Baobab Children Foundation; proceeds from earlier exhibitions in Germany supported the foundation.

Accra, Ghana

Ghanaian painter based in Accra; versatile painter whose later impasto portraits have gained international acclaim. Early work distills identity to bare traces — a cup, a fork, a coloured ground.

Nima, Accra, Ghana

Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist from Nima/Accra and a product of Ghanatta College of Arts and Design. His figurative portraits zero in on eyes, nose and mouth — the parts of the face where human emotion is most legible.

Accra, Ghana

Accra-born painter (b.1982) known for thick palette-knife oils inspired by Accra's markets, stadiums, and streets. Identified as one of the promising 'young savages' of the Ghanaian art scene.

Ghana (works internationally)

One of Ghana's most internationally renowned artists (b.1934). Alongside El Anatsui, the most globally recognised Ghanaian artist; works held at the UN HQ New York and the Imperial Palace Tokyo.