Grace Salome Abra Kwami was born at Worawora, Ghana in 1923. Grace Kwami’s love for clay revealed itself in her early childhood when she was able to model all sorts of fruits and vegetables at the age of 4. Art teacher and artist in various media, she preferred working in clay. Involved in the “Sankofa Art Movement”, she was among the first women to undertake an academic training in fine art. Kwami’s work is pioneering in its modernist approach.

She died in 2006.

Grace Kwami Sculpture features drawings, sculpture, text and photographs of the Ghanaian artist, Grace Salome Kwami. The images and text in the book were produced by Atta Kwami, his son, using different printmaking processes : etching, screenprintings, lithography and colour xeroxes.

The publication has 48 unnumbered, folded pages based on a spider form; Ananse, the spider, is a symbol of ingenuity to open out in eight directions after the spider’s legs, radiating from a paper rush-bound spine. Each leaf or “leg” of Grace Kwami Sculpture is devoted to a topic illustrated with images drawn from Atta Kwami’s personal archive of photographs and drawings. The topics and headings include geography, methods of working, history and context, and artistic genres and their concomitant processes.

Good to know

• Numbered 1/32 printed on a Somerset Satin 300gr paper

• Limited edition of 32 copies - Signed by Atta Kwami

• Published in 1993 by Atta Kwami - First edition

• Box & Gloves included

• Dimensions : 255x262x70mm

• Condition : overall is in a very good condition. One of the cover is lightly stained on the right side