Richmond Agamelah

Born in 1989 in Accra, Ghana.

Works and lives in Accra, Ghana.

Richmond Agamelah studied at the prestigious Ghanatta College of Art and Design. The characters in Richmond Agamelah’s work take on a performative role. Using discarded plastics, from phone cards to broken rulers, Agamelah adopts straight-edged materials and reimagines their utility, as tools to help facilitate the portrayal of our emotional attributes as humans. Love and empathy, for example, are displayed by carving out the acrylic paint with a rhythmic spontaneity, in which the figure’s composition appears fuller and playfully colourful. This association Agamelah makes between emotional characteristics and the materiality of paint is what makes his work truly unique.