Dr Anthony Amoako-Attah is a contemporary Ghanaian glass artist who views glass as “western material”. His research focuses on manipulating glass to look like a woven fabric through screen printing using glass powders, glass enamels, waterjet cutting and finishing it through kiln forming. Amoako-Attah perceive glass as a language, a platform, a container or a host that contemporary artists use to express their cultural identity.

 

Using glass as a “western material”, my research work concentrates on social, political, and cultural issues that are intertwined with integration, migration, dislocation and personal identity through the use of Ghanaian cultural Adinkra symbols and native Kente patterns. I am marvelled by the way fabrics are made and the drape-like folds, as they bear the mental and physical expressions of the weaver and wearer.