Serge Attukwei Clottey

Serge Attukwei Clottey cuts up the yellow plastic oil gallons found all over Ghana and stitches the pieces into large installations. He calls the practice Afrogallonism, a way of looking at what those containers say about consumption and need in modern African life.

Training

He was born in Accra in 1985 and began showing work around 2003. He studied at Ghanatta College of Art and Design in Accra and later at the Guignard University of Art in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The University of Brighton gave him an honorary doctorate in 2019.

Work

He works in installation, performance, photography and sculpture from a base in Labadi, and founded the GoLokal collective to use art for social change. His solo shows include My Mother's Wardrobe at Gallery 1957 in Accra (2016), Differences Between in New York (2018), Current Affairs in Brighton (2019), Routes at The Mistake Room in Los Angeles (2020), Distinctive Gestures in London (2021) and Gold Falls for Desert X AlUla in Saudi Arabia (2022).