Things For Change
Bracing political issues of infrastructure, environmental degradation, and resource allocation in Ghana and across the African continent at large through the figure and allegorical forms, Jephthah Aikins Bentsil-Kobiah’s allegorical paintings are invested in notions of justice and progress. In Ancestry Connection, the artist figures a young Black woman wading in water, in a local nature site. The background is verdant and lush green, but the water is brown because of fracking and mining for gold by foreign interests. From a compositional perspective, he spares no detail. The woman’s hair is elegantly rendered, every coil on her head a deliberate attestation of beauty and value. The trees are expansive and flourishing, made to look like they have been on the land for centuries. Even the water, while spoiled by the excesses of greed, glimmers with golden undertones. Beauty is always the delivery system for heavier subject matter.
Installation Views
Selected Works


“Me to Sika so”
Acrylic and Collage on Canvas | 48 x60 inches


Dilemma
Acrylic on Canvas | 34 x38 inches


Wise up!
Acrylic on canvas | 36 x 42 inches


A Heddle for Greener Pastures II
Acrylic on canvas | 69 x60 inches


Soft life
Acrylic on Canvas | 34 x42 inches


Ancestry Connection
Acrylic on canvas | 150 x 150 cm 2023
Artist CV
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