Accra, Ghana
Kobina Adusah is a ceramicist whose practice is rooted in personal and ancestral history. Raised in a family where stories, skills, and spiritual knowledge were passed down through generations, his work draws directly from the hands and traditions of those who came before him. For Adusah, clay is more than a material: it is memory, inheritance, and a vessel for transformation.
Working by hand, Adusah expresses inherited storylines through a distinctive and singular pattern language. The artist treats clay as something alive, connecting past and present. Each piece is both object and story, concerned with the traditions of African craft while confronting the impact of Western modernity. At its core, his practice speaks to collective family identity, cultural resilience, and the imperative to imagine new futures.
Adusah specialises in ceramics and is a graduate of Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. His work has been exhibited internationally, in Munich, Kumasi, New York, and Madrid. In 2026, he was a finalist in the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize with his series I Still Face You. From November 2025 to March 2026, he will take part in the exhibition Design in West Africa: Unity in Multiplicity at Palais de Lomé in Lomé, Togo.
My work is rooted in the belief that the earth we walk holds memory, mystery, and story. Clay, to me, is not inert. It breathes with ancestral weight. It carries echoes of forgotten rituals, silent pain, and whispered dream. Each vessel I create is a dialogue not just between hand and material, but also between worlds.
