About me.
My work is a continuous excavation of memory, identity, and the hidden narratives that shape both. As a painter and sculptor with a professional doctorate in Fine Art, I am drawn to materials that communicate: charred wood, terra-cotta, and jute cloth, each bearing its own historical significance and emotional depth.
I use charred wood not only as a material but as a metaphor for rebirth from trauma, symbolising histories that have been scorched yet continue to endure. Etchings and cutouts create spaces within the surface—ruptures and scars—where new meaning can emerge. Terra-cotta, with its connections to African soil and tradition, grounds my work in durability, ancestry, and resilience.
Incorporating Nsibidi and Adinkra symbols, I draw on indigenous African knowledge systems to establish visual authority in a world that has long sought to erase them. Jute cloth, once a colonial tool for extraction and plunder, is recontextualised in my practice, becoming a vessel for resistance, reclamation, and storytelling.
My work imagines alternative histories not to replace reality but to challenge accepted narratives and fill the gaps where voices have been silenced. These speculative narratives enable me to explore the complex legacy of colonialism, national identity, civil rights, and the subtle, quiet anomalies of life that often go unnoticed.
I am not interested in perfect surfaces or singular truths; rather, I focus on what lies beneath—the texture of survival, the messiness of memory, and the layered beauty of what endures.