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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Collage on Fabric
- Other details : Unmounted artwork. Mounting and/or framing available on request.
- Dimensions : 61.8x82.7in
About this artwork
The title of this series relates to the novel of the same title by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, which is about a imagined but corrupt West African nation. The shapes in these pieces are inspired by the Adinkra symbols (from the same area) for "enjoy yourself", " good living" and "truth" - in the novel how these are achieved involves anything but the truth. The work is executed on a much travelled truck tarpauline from a truck that travelled…
the hard roads between Johannesburg and the Congo - where parasitic police road blocks are a constant menance. The works are intended to be rough and to be displayed as a wall hanging.
Richard Ketley
South Africa
Credentials
- Art Fair Participant
- Works on commission
Richard Ketley is a South African artist who has exhibited his paintings nationally, as well as in Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, and the United Arab Emirates. His abstracts works are inspired by and portray the many places he has visited during his travels. Ketley's bold and color-intensive compositions also contain elements of drawing. In addition, the artist employs printed images which he reworks into abstraction, hovering on the edge of cognition.