LARRY AMPONSAH
Artist
LARRY AMPONSAH
Artist
Country:United Kingdom
Born in 1989, in Accra, Ghana. Lives and works in London, UK.
Larry Amponsah is an artist whose practice questions the orthodoxy of traditional approaches to image-making, unfolding the ways in which modes of production construct the contemporary politics of imagery. Intellectually trained as a painter, Amponsah creates collage paintings with archival images, objects, and stories sampled from various cultures to refigure systems of power while embracing new realities and new possibilities. He transforms prints and cuts into archival images, which are assembled in collages that are further worked upon using mechanical processes and his honed skills as a painter.
In this succession of strategic moves about image-making techniques, dynamic compositions emerge, as well as compelling narratives or portraits that reference his own upbringing and culture within a global context.
Amponsah is an Associate Lecturer at the Camberwell College of Art – University of the Arts London. He obtained his MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London, United Kingdom in 2018 after studying at Jiangsu University China in 2016 and completing his BFA at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana in 2015. From 2018-2020 he was a Trustee of The Kuenyehia Art Trust in Ghana. He was shortlisted for the 2019 Dentons Art Prize and won the Be Smart About Art Award in 2019. His works are held in private collections including The Wellcome Collection in London.
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