Exhibition

What We Leave We Carry

From: 4th May 2024 11:00 am

To: 29th June 2024 5:00 pm

Modern Painters New Decorators

Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, UK

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Ghanaian artist and teacher Papa Essel creates a solo exhibition, commissioned by Modern Painters, New Decorators. Papa creates image and text-based paintings, combining newspaper headlines, proverbs, textile patterns and adrinka symbols. He is inspired by urban spaces including barbershop signs, market culture and traffic signals. Papa’s work explores a network of themes around Africa’s relationship with the West. He has lived and worked in Kumasi, Ghana and Hull, UK and is currently based in Bromley, London.

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