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BIOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Boateng is a Ghanaian British multi-disciplinary artist and practice-based PhD researcher who explores traditional Kente weaving processes in reframing and re-imagining contemporary art spaces in marginalised communities as a way of connecting art spaces and marginalised communities and audiences. His practice is also community-focused through engaging in public art programs, talks, workshops and exhibitions to promote new ways of seeing and re-imagining museums and art spaces.
Earning his BA(Hons) Degree in Fine Art from Southampton Solent University and his MA degree in Fine Art from Winchester School of Art in 2017, his first group exhibition, Chartism, was at the WSA Gallery in Winchester, United Kingdom, in January 2017. His first solo exhibition was at Backlit Gallery in Nottingham in April 2019. Emmanuel was part of a group show at the Solent Showcase Gallery in Southampton, UK, in 2022. In August 2022, Emmanuel was part of a group exhibition Lucky Dip at GHT Gallery in Southampton. The same year, he was part of a collaborative project We Belong Here, funded by Arts Council UK, exhibited in Spud Gallery, New Forest. In October 2022. Emmanuel was part of a Group exhibition, “Thread”, by Southampton artists collective Zest and another group exhibition, Fragments Folds and Frays, a group exhibition at Stephen Lawrence Gallery in London exploring materiality in textiles.
Emmanuel has enrolled on several Artist residencies, including Nottingham Trent University’s (NTU) annual art residency (Summer Lodge) in 2019 and the Making Room artists residency with Aspacein 2022. Emmanuel continues to engage with local communities by setting up weaving and textile workshops and public art programs as a way of engaging with the public and local communities in both Southampton and London on issues surrounding inclusion, diversity and cultural identity. Programs and collaborations Emmanuel has led and has been involved in include ongoing collaboration with African Activities, a UK-based cultural organisation dedicated to promoting diversity for children between the ages of eight to fourteen in schools across the UK by providing lessons, activities and workshops focused around West African culture such as music drumming’ and a variety of arts and craft workshops, singing, dance, storytelling within schools and summer camps around Hampshire as a way of promoting diversity from engaging and creating workshops engagement workshops. In 2023, Emmanuel facilitated a series of public engagement workshops on painting as weaving and a talk on Kente weaving during the community art summer program 2022, a week-long open studious for Aspace. This series of events included workshops and other activities to encourage members of Southampton’s communities to visit and engage in arches studious and artists. Through my current research, I can build networks with audiences from local communities by regularly conducting participatory and collaborative research with members of the public.
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