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Joseph Awuah-Darko: How Is Your Day Going?: Ed Cross at 19 Garrett Street
5 September - 19 October 2024Image of Joseph Awuah-Darko: How Is Your Day Going?, Ed Cross at 19 Garrett Street
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Exhibitions
Abe Odedina: For Crying Out Loud
Ed Cross at 1-54 London 11 - 13 October 2024At 1-54 London 2024, Ed Cross is delighted to present For Crying Out Loud, a solo presentation of new and recent work by Abe Odedina. Seven years after his 2017... -
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Joseph Awuah-Darko: How Is Your Day Going?
Ed Cross at 19 Garrett Street 5 September - 19 October 2024View a list of works *** Ed Cross is delighted to present How is your day going?, the gallery’s first show with Joseph Awuah-Darko, and his first solo exhibition in... -
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Ermias Ekube: Memories are we are memories
Ed Cross at 19 Garrett Street 6 - 29 June 2024View a list of available works // Read the exhibition text by Precious Adesina *** Ed Cross is delighted to present Memories are we are memories, a solo exhibition of... -
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Ermias Ekube at Ed Cross: 5 Standout Shows to See at Small Galleries in June 2024
June 6 - 29 // 19 Garrett Street June 11, 2024After graduating from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, Ermias Ekube founded his own school, the Asmara School of the Arts, in Eritrea in 1994, where he mentored young artists despite... -
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Memories are we are memories, by Precious Adesina
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Joseph Awuah-Darko's work acquired by the Schulting Collection
Joseph Awuah-Darko, April 21 ‘A.M', 2024Ed Cross is pleased to announce that Joseph Awuah-Darko's work April 21 ‘A.M', 2024, has been aquired by Carla and Pieter Schulting's prestigious collection in the Netherlands. The collection had... -
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Ugonna Hosten: 9 Artists We Discovered at the New York Art Fairs 2024
Ed Cross at 1-54 New York May 3, 2024I was gripped by the depth and narrative profundity of a series of works on paper by Ugonna Hosten , on view at London gallery Ed Cross Fine Art at... -
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Multi-Hyphenate Joseph Awuah-Darko on the Rise of Africa’s Art Market
Ghanaian polymath Joseph Awuah-Darko discusses Accra's art scene, what he collects, and why painters are moving away from figuration. May 1, 2024At the age of 27, Ghanaian collector Joseph Awuah-Darko already has many strings to his bow. He is also a practicing artist, musician, writer, curator and entrepreneur, and his self-described... -
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Announcing: Joseph Awuah-Darko
Ed Cross is delighted to announce representation of British-born Ghanaian artist Joseph Awuah-DarkoEd Cross is delighted to announce representation of British-born Ghanaian artist Joseph Awuah-Darko. He will present a solo show of new and recent work at Ed Cross gallery in September... -
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Announcing: Ugonna Hosten
Ed Cross is delighted to announce representation of Nigerian-born British artist Ugonna HostenFollowing the success of her solo exhibition chi; Altarpieces, Liturgy & Devotion at York Art Gallery , Ed Cross is delighted to announce representation of Nigerian-born British artist Ugonna Hosten... -
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Mozambique’s Mário Macilau wins James Barnor prize – in pictures
November 23, 2023'This year’s winner of the James Barnor prize , which supports photography talent on the African continent and among the wider African diaspora, is Mário Macilau . The second edition... -
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ArtReview: Sola Olulode: Burning, like the star that showed us to our love
October 2023 September 28, 2023'The paintings almost uniformly depict joyful intimacy, yet there’s a compelling friction on their surfaces and between the different materials deployed. In Sunlight (2019), translucent sheets of blue wax overlap... -
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Leah Gordon's 'The Kingdom of This World | Triptych' acquired by Royal Museums Greenwich
Ed Cross is delighted to announce that Leah Gordon's The Kingdom of This World | Triptych - consiting of Vagabondaj Mawon: Sitadel (2019); Europe Supported by Africa and the Americas:... -
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Liv Little in Conversation with Sola Olulode on her Solo Exhibition: Burning, like the star that showed us to our love
August 9, 2023'When we meet, Olulode’s studio is filled with the monochromatic schemes she has become widely recognised for – green, blue, yellow. She even has a speck of yellow paint on... -
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Mário Macilau: My Best Shot, The Guardian
June 8, 2023'There’s a giant landfill site near Maputo, Mozambique’s capital city, that covers 42 acres and rises to 15 metres in height. Young men roam it hoping to find things that... -
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The Next Big Thing? Here Are 6 Breakout Artists to Watch From the 1-54 Art Fair in Marrakech
February 10, 2023'Who: Awofeso is a Nigerian artist based in Birmingham. On view at the fair is a series of sculptural portraits of figures the artist encountered on two streets of the... -
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FT Magazine, Gallery: Leah Gordon
January 21, 2023'As a nation, Haiti has used every cultural tool at its disposal to share its history', says photographer Leah Gordon, “from song to ritual, from drum-beat to dance step, from... -
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What I Buy and Why: Ed Cross on Collecting African Artists Before the Market Boom, and the £20,000 Jadé Fadojutimi Work
July 18, 2022'Ed Cross has been championing the work of African and African diaspora artists since he founded his eponymous gallery 13 years ago. A former artist himself, he has also long... -
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Abdulrazaq Awofeso at Aberdeen Art Gallery
New Aberdeen Bestiary exhibition at Art Gallery marks 50 years of Peacock Print Studio June 6, 2024The 50th anniversary of Peacock – a workshop for art, Aberdeen’s renowned print studio, is being marked with an exhibition of the New Aberdeen Bestiary at Aberdeen Art Gallery. The...
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Abe Odedina: Love and Hate Review
February 2, 2021In 1960, the year of Nigerian independence, the artist Uche Okeke wrote a manifesto: ‘Young artists in a new nation, this is what we are! We must grow with the... -
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A Conversation with Wole Lagunju
December 23, 2020'Episode Forty-Six features Wole Lagunju. He is a 1986 graduate of Fine arts and graphic design at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Lagunju’s hybrid paintings of... -
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Abe Odedina and Emily Watkins In Conversation
Love and HateTo celebrate the release of Love and Hate, Abe Odedina's first major monograph, the artist talks to the book's editor Emily Watkins about the neediness of canvas, demanding gods and... -
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The Portfolio: Mário Macilau
November 20, 2020'Reality and fantasy overlap in the socially motivated photographs of Mário Macilau, a skilled portraitist who prefers to work on long-term projects. His output includes series focused on street children,... -
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Conversation between Shiraz Bayjoo and Anna Arabindan-Kesson
Global Plantation Series: A Land of Extraordinary QuarantinesOn June 2nd, Shiraz Bayjoo participated in the first of a series of artist-directed digital discussions that contemplate the global forms and meanings of the plantation historically, and in our... -
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In The Spotlight: Ed Cross Fine Art
May 20, 2020'Way back in 1988 I left my London publishing job at Heinemann to live in Kenya to pursue a career as an artist and continue my publishing interests as an... -
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5 Peintres Africains qui sont plus doués que Picasso
February 12, 20205- Wole Lagunju Peintre Nigérian d’origine Yoruba comme son nom l’indique, ses créations tirent leurs sources d’un mélange de l’univers multiple des entités Africaines et de la culture vestimentaire de...