Accra, Ghana
Kobina Adusah is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work with clay emerges from a deep personal and ancestral lineage. Raised in a family where stories, skills, and spiritual knowledge were passed down through generations, Adusah draws inspiration from the hands and histories of those who came before. Clay, for him, is more than material: it is memory, inheritance, and a medium for transformation.
Through hand-sculpted forms and aesthetic patterning, Adusah engages with clay as a living language that bridges past and present. His practice honours the knowledge embedded in traditional African craft while responding to the ongoing effects of imposed Western modernity. Each piece becomes a site of remembrance and reinvention – a tactile archive shaped by familial memory and cultural resilience.
Grounded in ancestral values and tuned to the urgencies of now, Adusah reclaims design as a relational act. His work affirms unity, dignity, and collective identity, crafting a vision of the future rooted in the strength of inherited wisdom and creative resistance.
Specialising in ceramics, Adusah is a graduate of Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. His work has been exhibited in Munich, Kumasi, New York, and Madrid as a finalist in the 2025 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.
From November 2025 to March 2026, he will exhibit as part of 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.
