Print Price: £150
Original Price: £3,700
Inspired by the Ghanaian cocoa industry, this artwork explores the interconnectedness and coexistence of an industry that depends on the earth and the labour of farmers, both women and men, all the way to the manufacturing industries that rely on cocoa.
The tree in the upper left corner acts as a central life force, sheltering diverse forms that cut across human, animal, and abstract entities.
I hope to bring together my signature colourful and childlike figures as a way of imagining a balanced world, where every living being, no matter how small, has a place and a voice.
| Medium | Painting |
|---|---|
| Material | Acrylics on canvas |
| Original size | |
| Print Size | 29.7 x 42 |
| Rarity | Unique |
| Frame | Unframed |
| Signature | Signed in bottom corner of painting |
Being originally an autodidact artist, Ghanaian painter and musician Nyornuwofia Agorsor (b. 1983) supplemented her personally garnered skills with some studies at Kofi Agorsor’s studio. As an instrumentalist, songwriter, composer and performer, she is also the vivacious lead vocalist of the Agorsor Band.
Her works draw from certain esoteric African knowledge systems of education, which, in their fullness, train and tune the mind in order to bring forth one’s own creative genius. Nyornuwofia believes that there is an urgent need for Africa to change her servitude system of education, which, according to her, does little to encourage practicality, lacking the potential to nurture and grow the minds that will exploit and add value to our human and natural resources.
Employing mathematical and geometrical symbols, classroom spaces, and intelligible and unintelligible texts, she captures, sometimes with humour or satire, the position of Africa today, Africa tomorrow, and Africa yesterday. All come in the guise of pure stretches of colour and drawings tinged with an alluring childlike naiveté.
Alexandra Haddad
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