Nanafremah Amoabeng

NANA ADWOA FREMA AMOABENG - BIOGRAPHY Nana Frema is a young Ghanaian artist who specializes in realism, abstract, and portrait arts. She is versatile and adventurous in her approach using a combination of textures, colours, and style. She graduated from the Ghanatta College of Art and Design in 2015 and in 2020, she was accepted on the Critlab Art Residency with other Ghanaian creatives. Nana Frema is daring with the use of vibrant colours in her pieces. Her works usually are a reflection of her sunny, cheerful, and bubbly personality. Most of her collections after school focused on abstracts, flowers, and landscapes; these were motivated while she worked in a gallery. Apart from using arts to reflect her nature, Nana Frema also uses arts to advocate for social issues especially issues that are rarely topical. She collaborated with the French Embassy on a project that focused on Gender-based Violence and her works were selected for an exhibition held at Alliance Française. While working on a summer project with Most Def Foundation - a Ghanaian organization that exists to support deaf teens and young adults, Nana Frema was inspired to launch her “Hand Statement” series. During this project, she had to work using sign language to communicate with the students and it triggered a memory where she almost lost her arm in an accident. Nana Frema also served as a Camp Director and taught arts to 10 deaf students from the Cape Deaf School. She co-curated an exhibition themed ‘A Minute of Silence’ which was specially curated for the deaf students using art and photography as tools to share the history of the capture and movement of Africans to the dungeons in Cape Coast and Elmina. Nana is currently the Coordinator for – Women Art Institute Africa (WAIA) a cooperative group whose objective is to support and grow women creatives. She has previously participated in and exhibited her works at the Chale Wote festival

• the biggest creative arts festival in Africa, Re:publica Accra, and also served as an in-house artist at the Bedford Art Gallery. Nana Frema is optimistic about the future of women’s participation in the Ghanaian art scene and looks forward to using her work to inspire that movement.