Stephen Abban Junior

Stephen Abban Junior (b.1992) is a Ghanaian illustrator and contemporary mixed-media artist currently working and living in Sekondi-Takoradi and a native of Mankessim, in the Central Region of Ghana.


ARTIST STATEMENT

A short-term memory loss ushered his illustrations on his mother’s bedroom walls during his early childhood. Those illustrations were his means of keeping his memories and helping him recall his thoughts, morals, and values passed on by his parents.

Episodic memories are some of the capturing subjects Abban portrays in his oeuvre, he synchronizes the process of aging and history. As human advances, there are possibilities of keeping blindfolds on their history and going through life without it. As humanity advances so do we advance with nature and its history. This has resulted in bridging the gap between nature and its history by linking natural elements; soil, human figures, fiber (burlap Fabric), and water and blending them with an inorganic element “Acrylic” creating a visual and psychological sensation of antiqueness on the viewer’s mind.

The formalism of Stephen Abban Junior's oeuvre is comprised largely of figurative representations in which the feminine figure dominates, thereby allotting Fluidity...

Abban studied visual arts in high school, holds a BTECH in Studio Practice from the Takoradi Technical University, and was awarded an Erasmus international exchange program by the European Commission in Hungary - Europe to study visual representation (Fine Art) at Eszterhazy Karoly University in Eger- Hungary. He has also exhibited in numerous international Art Exhibitions and Fairs, including the Mauritius International Art Fair (MIAF).