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Godfried Donkor, the First Day of the Yam Custom: 1817

Posted on July 13, 2017 (July 18, 2017) by Oyin Olaniyan

Internationally renowned artist Godfried Donkor was born in 1964 in Kumasi and moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 8. He earned a BA in fine art and a Masters in art history from St Martins College of Art and the School of Oriental and African Studies respectively, before going on to study painting […]

The First Day of the Yam Custom

Posted on May 12, 2017 (May 12, 2017) by NEWS

From August 7 to September 30, 2017, Gallery 1957 will present a new body of work by Ghanaian artist Godfried Donkor. The artist’s new body of work reimagines an illustration by the 19th century English explorer Thomas Bowdich, now held in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London and thought to be the first recorded image […]