Honoured to be in the yard with our July, August Spotlight artist, the talented Anya Paintsil Thursday 27th August at 17:00 (UK time).
Anya Paintsil is a Welsh and Ghanaian textile artist who lives and works in Dyffryn Ceiriog. Drawing inspiration from her childhood and adult life in rural North Wales, and her ancestral, Fante tradition of figurative textiles, Paintsil combines practices she was taught as a young child; rug making, appliqué and hand embroidery with afro hairstyling techniques to create semi sculptural large scale portraits. Paintsils’ figures explore the possibilities and politics of non representative depictions of the Black figure.
