The Batik Shoppe in Accra

16/10/2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/arts/design/bjarne-melgaard-lawsuit-norway.html

Bjarne Melgaard’s rise in the art world came with strings attached and an unusual contract with investors. Now he’s suing to regain control of his artwork.

19/09/2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/arts/design/ibrahim-mahama-artist-ghana-white-cube.html

Installations of jute sacks or hospital beds have made Ibrahim Mahama a star. Back home, they’re fueling a bold vision.

17/09/2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/t-magazine/hans-haacke-art.html

As cultural institutions face an existential crisis over who funds them and how, the 88-year-old artist Hans Haacke is still making curators and collectors clutch their pearls.

27/08/2024

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_LZoTetN6x/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

12/08/2024

African Photographers
How we see us

Peter Magubane, South African ...

General
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jul/04/african-photography-world-in-common-tate-modern-exhibition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgmgJC0ou6g
https://momaa.org/contemporary-african-photography-trends-and-perspectives/
https://tinyurl.com/83f4y52a
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/celebrations-negotiations-%E2%80%93-african-photography-mam-rio-de-janeiro/IgURS3W_ibJPIA?hl=en
https://tinyurl.com/s976awsa

Peter Magubane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBhBm6Kslmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtNWfgtYk7k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Magubane
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Peter-Magubane/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3APeter+Magubane

Ernest Cole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QixS5QXbLmc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=921dfv24hbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWEWuqoQEJk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cole_(photographer)

Seydou Keïta
https://www.seydoukeitaphotographer.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seydou_Ke%C3%AFta

Felicia Ewuraesi Abban
https://www.instagram.com/manor.africa/reel/C11xK41tCTW/?locale=en-GB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Abban
https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/felicia-abban/

Maheder Haileselassie
https://www.maheder.photography/

Salih Basheer
https://www.salihbasheer.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salih_Basheer

Ghana
https://tinyurl.com/bzf97v6h

South Africa
https://ididthat.co/ididthat-directory/photographers-in-south-africa/

Nigeria
https://35awards.com/winners2020/country/NG/photographers

Senegal
http://dakar-bamako-photo.eu/en/adama-sylla.html

Egypt
https://www.daviddegner.com/blog/egypt-photographers/

Angola
https://www.verangola.net/va/en/072023/Culture/36229/Angolan-photographers-at-an-African-art-exhibition-in-London.htm

Angolans Edson Chagas, Délio Jasse, Kiluanji Kia Henda and Mozambican Mário Macilau are part of an exhibition of African artists that opens on Thursday at the Tate Modern museum of modern art, in London.

18/07/2024

https://cecilialampteybotchway.com/

Hello, I’m Cecilia A mixed media visual Artist producing Contemporary African Art View My Work Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway Cecilia Lamptey Botchway, is a US-based Ghanaian mixed media artist, versed in figurative painting, performance, abstractism and textile making. Mixed Media Artist Upcycling mopp...

10/07/2024

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/how-lonnie-g-bunch-iii-is-renovating-the-nations-attic?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

The Smithsonian’s dynamic leader is dredging up slave ships, fending off culture warriors in Congress, and building two new museums on the National Mall.

06/07/2024

04/07/2024

Ghana, West Africa. Gyampo studied at the College of Art, University of Science and Technology in Ghana, where he received a B.A. in 1978, and later attended graduate classes at the Institute of African Studies. […] He has taught modeling and casting workshops … served as a guest lecturer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Robert Wood Johnson University of Medicine, where he spoke about socio-political and religious implications in African art.” I was very pleased to see a representation of a work that I can relate and identify with.
This also reminds me of one of the modern heroes of contemporary Ghanaian Sculpture, Nene F. Oko Matey. I would have loved to see his works on display in such a garden.
My current visit to the Gardens for Sculpture has sensitized me more now to the importance of preservation, collecting, archiving, and maintenance of art, nature and history. In recent times, the Ghanaian Architect, Kojo Derban, has been writing articles and giving lectures about the importance of preservation and “the need to conserve our architectural heritage in this age of rapid urbanization.”
This brings to mind the excellent and monumental work done by Ibrahim Mahama at the Savanah Center for Contemporary Arts (SCCA) and Red clay studios and that of Kwame Akoto-Bamfo’s Nkyinkyim Museum in Ada. Certainly, this is in the footsteps and spirit of the artist and philanthropist, John Seward Johnson credited with the vision and establishment of the Grounds for Sculpture.
As Architect Derban remarkably notes in a recent lecture, on Architectural Conservation at the George Padmore Library in Accra: Ibrahim Mahama’s “passion for conservation is no child’s play. Up in Tamale where he runs the Savanah Center for Contemporary Arts (SCCA) and Red clay studios, he uses the sales from his art work and prize money won from his numerous international awards to purchase structures of heritage that would otherwise be on the state demolition list.”
Visiting the Grounds for Sculpture, in Hamilton Township, New Jersey has exponentially increased my admiration and respect for the vision and works by Ibrahim Mahama at his SCCA and Kwame Akoto-Bamfo’s Nkyinkyim Museum in Ada.
We should encourage and support the works and creations of Kwame Akoto-Bamfo’s Nkyinkyim Museum in Ada. The Nkyinkyim Museum as Akoto-Bamfo indicates “is not just an archive of African history and African heritage, it has a more spiritual and personalized significance. Journeying through the Museum is a spiritual walk to healing.” The installation sculptures by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo can be seen at Nkyinkyim Museum, Nuhalenya-Ada Ghana and the Legacy Museum Montgomery Alabama, USA.

17/06/2024

My Twin series:
"I and me are ONE." A philosophical concept that "implies a state of unity, wholeness, and self-awareness, where the boundaries between the inner and outer selves are dissolved."

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway,
Untitled Twin 2, 2024_
Oil and Mopping Cotton Wool on canvas
37.5 by 36 ins (95.25 cm by 91.44 cm)

11/06/2024

My Twin Project.

03/06/2024