Les Artisans Du Champ

Painting/Printmaking is my chief mode of creation. Though I work primarily in synthetic polymer, I also make heavy use of gold leaf, newspaper prints, corn amylum bioplastic, oil and charcoal. I have an especially close relationship with bioplastic because after I melt it down and mix with water and a binding agent, it closely resembles “fufu” which is one of the most popular West/Central African cultural dishes. These little aspects of my practice bring my work full circle, from my experiences in Europe and America back home to Cameroon in Africa. In addition to painting and printmaking, I also lightly engage in photography.

At first glance of my portfolio, my work may seem like an assembly of contradictions - the quietness of my portraits is sharply contrasted by the vibrant shapes/motifs of my Tribal Countenances, just as much as the Tribal Countenances themselves bear almost no signature similarity to my Symphonies. However, my work though dissimilar in series, is an amalgamation of the different facets of the human psyche that make up me and the community I live in - tranquility and noise, form and formlessness, smoothness and textured terrain, love and hate, confidence and embarrassment, trust and betrayal, life and death...

2016 - Georgia State University

-2021 Group Exhibition, The Privilege of Getting Together Vol. III, Swivel Gallery, New York, USA

-2021 Group Exhibition, The Other Art Fair, California Market at Hancock Park, Los Angeles, USA

-2021 Group Exhibition, Natural Elements, Major Courtyard at the Doge’s Palace, Genoa, Italy

-2020 Group Exhibition, The Summer Show, Pall Mall Gallery at the Royal Opera Arcade, London, United Kingdom (catalogue).

-2016 Solo Exhibition, We Asked for More, Commercial Avenue, Bamenda, Cameroon.

-2016 Solo Exhibition, We Too Are Cameroonians, Commercial Avenue, Bamenda, Cameroon.

-2015 Solo Exhibition, Emotions of Color, Congress Hall, Bamenda, Cameroon.

-2014 Group Exhibition, Sons and Daughters of the Soil, Bafut Palace Musuem, Bafut, Cameroon

-2014 Group Exhibition, Trade Fair and Artistic Celebration, Municipal Stadium, Bamenda, Cameroon

Honors:

-2014 Most Outstanding Artist, Bafut Annual Artistic and Cultural Festival, Bafut, Cameroon

-2014 Presidential Honors, Youth Day Celebration, Bamenda, Cameroon

-2015 Annual Artist Spotlight presented by the Governor of the Northwest Region

-2015 SHESA Echoes Cover Artist (Issue No. 50)

-2015 Presidential Honors, Youth Day Celebration, Bamenda, Cameroon

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