Larry Amponsah

Larry Amponsah is a contemporary artists devoted to working in collage and pushing the idea of collage making as means or platform through which he achieves his artistic ends on the international level. Born on the 11th November 1989 in Ghana and now living and working in London, Larry studied BFA Painting at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, proceeded to Jiangsu University in China to study Chinese Traditional painting and calligraph before his MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London.

Amponsah’s practice mainly is about the use of archival images and materials sampled from various cultures to attempt to solve the unresolved questions of representation in the history of Art by employing Collage as a point of departure to create compositions of entities in spaces and spaces in entities, to tell fictional stories that deal with issues on a global platform and in doing so, the works create and take up positions in our contemporary Globalised community. The entities created are not just figures, as they become monstrous, grotesque-like yet not off-putting vessels or containers for ideas that lead or transcend viewers into a certain kind of space (the now-here but nowhere, yet from everywhere), in which they begin to look and see differently to realise the urgency to think about and change the instability of our systems and structures and on which our Identity is built. With disrespect to all forms of boundaries and classifications, the works suggest our mode of survival and create avenues for critical reflections.