
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, UKHashtag
About
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.