Annie-Marie Akussah
Annie-Marie Akussah is a multidisciplinary artist, and educator who lives and works between Kumasi, Ghana and London, United Kingdom. She completed her Masters in Painting and Sculpture at KNUST (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology) in 2021 and her BFA in London at Wimbledon College of Art (University of the Arts London) in 2018.
Artists Vision
Annie uses archival images of travel documents and latent materials to create paintings, sculptural objects, and films. She is interested in how entities negotiate to 'be/long' in familiar spaces. She adopts archival processes in her work, such as revealing, concealing, layering, fabricating, casting and storing away.
There are three main discourses Annie explored for her response to the Unforgotten Lives exhibition:
- Confronting the unknown, the new land: landscape of Ajumapy-Enyan-Essian as well as the West and East India Docks
- Visually unrecognisable, yet sonically familiar: transformation of names like Quobna, Kobina and Kwabena
- Presentation and transfiguration of archival objects: intervening and commenting on how archives are often presented and concealed. "I am keen on creating new images that consider the site of uprooting and sites of manufacturing and their histories."
"I am keen on creating new images that consider the site of uprooting and sites of manufacturing and their histories."
Annie-Marie Akussah in Conversation
In her own words, read about what drew Annie-Marie to the Art at the Archive project and more about the work that she created
