Theme · The World
Documentary
A film about Kobina Nyarko and the The World theme.
Why The World belongs to sustainability
The planet we share is not a backdrop. It is a participant.
Sustainability is not a policy — it's a relationship. The ocean, the soil, the air we breathe, the clothes on our backs: all of it is part of a living system that we either nurture or destroy.
The artists we work with under the World theme don't illustrate environmental crises. They live inside them. Kobina Nyarko paints from the shore where fishing nets tangle with plastic. Michelle Beattie sculpts from what the sea returns. Emmanuel Tieku builds from what the Global North discards.
Their work doesn't preach. It witnesses. And witnessing, in art, is the beginning of change.
Kobina Nyarko · Behind the Flow
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Featured artist
Kobina Nyarko
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.
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Michelle "Mishvania" Beattie · Coral Blooms · 2024
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Featured artist
Michelle "Mishvania" Beattie
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.
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Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku · Songs of Summer · 2024
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Featured artist
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
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.
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Exhibitions under this theme
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Oceans Voice
Oceans Voice brings the ocean to life through powerful paintings, film elements and immersive storytelling. At its core is Ghanaian artist Kobina Nyarko, whose iconic fish swarms express movement, resilience and environmental vulnerability. Complemen...
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The Living Web — Threads of Land, Sea and Self
The Living Web explores human connection to land and ocean through an innovative artistic lens, avoiding common clichés associated with pollution and environmental discourse. Instead of focusing on problems, it celebrates interconnectedness — imagini...
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The Ribbon carries it forward.
The World theme meets the Ribbon at the ocean. From Jamestown Fishing Harbour to the landfill at Kpone, the textile archive carries the weight of what we consume — and what we leave behind.
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