Women On The Move
Collection:UAL Art Collection
Date: 2018
Artist: Annie-Marie Akpene Akussah (Ghanaian)
Dimensions:
180 x 150cm
Medium: Oil paint, silkscreen print, transfer and Kente cloth on canvas
Object number: UAC 919
DescriptionAkussah studied BA Fine Art: Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts. She observes that society’s paradigm of expatriates is often from the Middle East and Africa, yet the prevailing perspectives, ideologies and impressions of migratory movement pay little attention to inter-African migratory movement. Akussah's painting explores what movement is like for women today, in the early 1950’s and post-independence, also exploring their role to the Ghanaian economy.