A PICTURE DIES AS SOON AS IT IS MADE, IT IS RESURRECTED WHEN IT IS SEEN. My works contemplate in visual form my relationship with society, the environment and nature. Art has become a ‘forum’ through which I deal with issues that pertain to the predicaments of humanity such as war, violence and tragedy. The course and effects of our beliefs and occupations, and how they affect our relationship with fellow human beings, and our destiny continues to intrigue and inspire me to work.
My paintings are composed with fragments of recognizable imagery transformed by memory, imagination, and formal elements into metaphoric constructions. The paintings are in most cases done on canvas using mixed-media such as acrylics, oils, enamels, latex, dimensional fabric paints in addition to found materials. The surfaces of the paintings are often built up with several layers of paint, through various evolutions of imagery till a convincing picture emerges.
My three dimensional works are often created from found objects reconfigured into hybrids often exhibited as site specific installations or as individual objects.
The performances that I create often evoke through interdisciplinary media the nature of our daily routines and obsessions. Ritual, audio-visual improvisations, music, dance, makeup, and painting feature extensively in my performance work.
Born 5 years after the Gold Coast, now Ghana received its independence from Britain, I was brought up and educated in a cosmopolitan postcolonial environment. My experiences through Western style boarding school, and growing up in four major cities of Ghana: Accra, Sekondi-Takoradi, Cape Coast and Kumasi have shaped the narrative of my art. I have come to appreciate the beauty of my own culture in addition to other cultures for the purpose of creative development.
The works on this website are a selection of work that I have done since the mid 1990s to the present.