03/25/2026
AFRICAN ART MATTERS. Read our latest article linked in the bio and follow us on our new Substack for more interviews with sustainable artists on the continent and beyond.
Dela Anyah is transforming the way we look at tires.
Anyah is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist who transforms discarded tires and inner tubes, license plates and bicycle rims into sculptural installations, exploring themes around value, sustainability, identity, material reuse and cultural narratives.
Breathing new life from decay, his pieces represent stories and dialogue challenging viewers of notions of value and beauty.
“My practice reimagines waste as a resource, centering on the afterlives of the tire industry,” he writes. Through weaving discarded inner tubes and mapping tire and repair networks, I examine how waste circulates between local economies and global systems. These transformations render overlooked materials into forms that reveal the intimate links between daily discard and planetary warming.”
Full article linked in bio.
