Larry Amponsah
Larry Amponsah (born 1989, Accra-Ghana) is a multi-media artist whose practice investigates traditional modes of image-making whilst employing unconventional strategies of production to look at the contemporary politics of imagery.
He received his MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2018) after studying for an MFA in Chinese Traditional Painting at Jiangsu University China (2016) and gaining his BFA in Painting at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana (2015).
Larry is currently a Trustee of The Kuenyehia Art Trust in Ghana, shortlisted for the 2019 Young Masters Art Prize, he is also shortlisted for the 2019 Denton’s Art Prize, and recently won the Be Smart About Art Award in 2019.
Amponsah transforms, cuts into archives of both digital and printed images, which he assembles in collages that are further worked upon using mechanical processes (printing) and his honed skills as a conventionally trained painter.
In this succession of strategic moves about image-making techniques, dynamic compositions emerge, as well as compelling, dreamy narratives or portraits that reference the artist's own West African upbringing within a greater Black global narrative.
