Dorothy Amenuke

Introducing Dorothy Akpene Amenuke (@dotamenuke ), the distinguished Ghanaian artist behind our upcoming exhibition, Dreaming Is a Map (curated by N'Gone Fall (@panafricandkr ))—a compelling exploration of the relationships between space, identity, and human interaction. Based in Kumasi, Amenuke is both an internationally exhibiting artist and a lecturer in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), within the College of Art and Built Environment. Through her artistic and academic practice, she contributes meaningfully to critical conversations around contemporary African art and spatial aesthetics. Working with fibres, textiles, fabrics, and found materials, Amenuke creates large-scale soft sculptures and immersive installations. Using labour-intensive techniques such as stitching, quilting, and collage, she transforms fabrics including; used clothes usually donated by family and friends and sometimes purchased, accessories, reeds, and strings into tactile constellations of form and space. These works evoke feelings of protection, containment, and reflection, while carrying subtle tensions beneath their surface. Her practice often draws on metaphors of devotion, duty and daring; reflecting the passage of time embedded within each stitch. Through these layered material narratives, Amenuke addresses issues affecting women in her society while also speaking to broader human experiences of care, resilience, and belonging. In this exhibition,including works from Habitation Variations, she presents contemplative installations that invite viewers to pause, reflect, and connect within spaces shaped by memory, identity, and hope. 📅 Exhibition Opening: 14 March 2026 🕛 Opening Time: 12:00 PM 🕛 Art Talk: 3:00 PM 📍 Location: Nubuke Foundation, East Legon, Ghana The Exhibition Runs Until 30 May 2026. Click the link in our Bio to Pre-register! #NubukeAt20 #DreamingIsAMap #DorothyAmenuke #NubukeFoundation #ArtExhibition #ContemporaryArt #TextileInstallations

We are pleased to present Dreaming is a Map, an exhibition of works by Dorothy Akpene Amenuke(@dotamenuke ) and curated by N’Goné Fall(@panafricandkr ), at Nubuke Foundation, as part of Nubuke @ 20, marking two decades of dedication to Ghana’s visual arts and cultural heritage. 📅 Opening Date: Saturday, 14 March 2026 🕛 Opening Time: 12:00 PM 🕒 Artist’s Conversation: 3:00 PM 📍 Location: Nubuke Foundation, East Legon, Accra 🗓 Exhibition Dates: 14 March – 30 May 2026 Dorothy Amenuke’s large-scale works explore humanity’s interaction and intervention with the world, examining order and disorder, harmony and dissonance, and probing how bias, prejudice, control and ignorance shape our interpretations and reactions. The soft sculpture installations and constellations; unique in Ghana—are made with strings, fibres, textiles, discarded clothing and accessories using stitching, collaging and quilting techniques. Through tactility and sensory experiences, the artist invites viewers to connect and reflect with her. Click the link in our Bio to Pre-register! #NubukeAt20 #DreamingIsAMap #DorothyAmenuke #NubukeFoundation #ArtExhibition #ContemporaryArt #TextileInstallations

Some impressions from the opening of our exhibition "Floating and flowing like fragments and extensions: of waters, lands and skies" 25 July Opoku Ware II Museum KNUST, Kumasi With Dorothy Amenuke, Julie Edel Hardenberg, La Vaughn Belle, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Bernard Akoi-Jackson and Daniela Agostinho What happens when artists, who have been separated by coloniality, meet across different geographies? Which experiences, vocabularies, elements and images resonate across different spaces, and how do they, together, create new horizons for repairing colonial legacies? Reparative Encounters is a network that connects artists and curators from the US Virgin Islands, Ghana, Kalallit Nunaat and Denmark. Through a series of meetings - in Nuuk, Saint Croix and Kumasi -, the network creates dialogue between different artistic forms of engaging with colonial histories and registering their ongoing effects. Inspired by blaxTARLINES’ artistic and pedagogical methods of “learning sideways” and transforming the art work “from commodity to gift'' we have been working alongside one another developing new art works and interventions that are in dialogue with each other’s practices and communities, while keeping their distinct features. Material fragments of the different yet connected geographies and histories intersect: fragments of hair, jute sacks, sealskin, sunsets, winds and other materials and elements that travel across distances, floating in the waters, lands and skies. The result becomes an environment of works using different techniques including drawing, photography, textile works, soft sculpture, performance and video. Thank you to everyone who joined us and shared this moment with us. With thanks to our brilliant installation team @yeboah_ahenkan_richard , @amazin.astro and @id176 . With support from Aarhus University, Globus programme - @nordiskkulturfond , Danish Arts Foundation @statenskunstfond , Department of Painting and Scultpture, KNUST and @blaxtarlines Kumasi.

Excerpt from Figures of Stitch Art Talk at KNUST Great Hall foyer #arttalk #blaxtarlineskumasi #figure #stitch

Excerpt from Figures of Stitch Art Talk at KNUST Great Hall foyer #arttalk #blaxtarlineskumasi #figure #stitch

Excerpt from Figures of Stitch Art Talk at KNUST Great Hall foyer #arttalk #blaxtarlineskumasi #figure #stitch

FIGURES OF STITCH AND OTHER FIGURES Exhibition by @dotamenuke Curated by @benjoonam ART TALK Moderated by @benjoonam @blaxtarlines @knustmuseum @voice_of_knust #stitch #figures #contemporaryspace

“... flowing and floating like fragments and extensions: of waters, lands and skies...” [an intervention into histories, discourses and aesthetic manifestations] Opoku Ware II Museum Kumasi, Ghana 25 July, 5.30 pm What happens when artists, who have been separated by coloniality, meet across different geographies? Which experiences, vocabularies and strategies resonate across different spaces, and how do they, together, create new horizons for repairing the traumas and experiences of coloniality? Reparative Encounters is a network that connects artists and curators from the US Virgin Islands, Ghana, Kalallit Nunaat and Denmark, locations differently impacted by Danish colonialism. Through a series of meetings - in Nuuk, Saint Croix and Kumasi -, the network creates dialogue between different artistic forms of engaging with colonial histories and repairing their ongoing legacies. The intervention “... flowing and floating like fragments and extensions ...” brings together works and discussions that have evolved over the past encounters in Nuuk (2023) and St Croix (2024), and new works/experiences produced especially for the exhibition. Artists: @lavaughnbelle (USVI), @katrine_dirckinckholmfeld (DK), @benjoonam Bernard Akoi-Jackson (GH), @dotamenuke Dorothy Akpene Amenuke (GH), @julieedelhardenberg (GL/DK), and Daniela Agostinho (PT/DK). With support from: Reparative Encounters Network, Aarhus Universitet (DK), Globus programme - @nordiskkulturfond , @statenskunstfond , @blaxtarlines blaxTARLINES KUMASI, Department of Painting and Sculpture, KNUST, Kumasi (GH)

FIGURES OF STITCH AND OTHER FIGURES #Blaxtarlines #knustmuseum #figure #stitch #tapestry #contemporaryspace

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