Dorothy Akpene Amenuke, born 1968, lives and works in Kumasi Ghana.
She studied sculpture in Kwame Nkrumah University of science and Technology, Ghana and holds an MA in Art Education, MFA and a PhD in sculpture. Amenuke has worked professionally as an art-teacher at the basic and Senior High levels and has been resource person for art clubs in her community. She is a member of Sansa International Artists’ workshop, which is part of the international Triangle Arts Workshops’ network. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Amenuke has participated in several International art workshops and residencies.
She was a resident of the 2009 Art Omi international Artists Residency, New York and has participated in Art workshops by the Kuona Trust in Kenya, Dwaryers workshop in Egypt. She was involved with Artists to Artists: Multicultural Voices, by Perpich Center for Arts Education in Minnesota. She directed the International Women Artists Workshop (IWAWO 2009) organized by Art In Aktion in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Accra, Ghana. She currently coordinates the itinerant OFKOB Artists’ Residency in Ghana. Amenuke was the recipient of the 2012 Howard Kestenbaum/Vijay Paramsothy International Fellowship in the Haystack Mountain School of crafts, USA, and her work, “How Far How Near”, is in the collection of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (SMA). Amenuke’s art involves the sculpting of a variety of fabrics and fibres through such processes as cutting, stitching, knotting, weaving and modeling into objects and spatial installations that evoke feelings of containment, protection and even subtle repulsion. Devotion becomes a recurring metaphor in her use of materials, laborious processes and communal strategies in the production of her work.
She studied sculpture in Kwame Nkrumah University of science and Technology, Ghana and holds an MA in Art Education, MFA and a PhD in sculpture. Amenuke has worked professionally as an art-teacher at the basic and Senior High levels and has been resource person for art clubs in her community. She is a member of Sansa International Artists’ workshop, which is part of the international Triangle Arts Workshops’ network. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Amenuke has participated in several International art workshops and residencies.
She was a resident of the 2009 Art Omi international Artists Residency, New York and has participated in Art workshops by the Kuona Trust in Kenya, Dwaryers workshop in Egypt. She was involved with Artists to Artists: Multicultural Voices, by Perpich Center for Arts Education in Minnesota. She directed the International Women Artists Workshop (IWAWO 2009) organized by Art In Aktion in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Accra, Ghana. She currently coordinates the itinerant OFKOB Artists’ Residency in Ghana. Amenuke was the recipient of the 2012 Howard Kestenbaum/Vijay Paramsothy International Fellowship in the Haystack Mountain School of crafts, USA, and her work, “How Far How Near”, is in the collection of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (SMA). Amenuke’s art involves the sculpting of a variety of fabrics and fibres through such processes as cutting, stitching, knotting, weaving and modeling into objects and spatial installations that evoke feelings of containment, protection and even subtle repulsion. Devotion becomes a recurring metaphor in her use of materials, laborious processes and communal strategies in the production of her work.