Self, time, space, and creative growth

As part of her presentaon, Nana Adwoa Frema Amoabeng stated that she wished the COVID-19 lockdowncouldconnuewithoutCoronavirus.

Frema noted that, during the COVID-19 lockdown she spentmewithherfamilyandlearnedalotaboutherself. She also used the period to explore her creave skills and produced a lot of work. She developed her porolio and became more visible by taking advantage of the me and spaceCOVID-19offered.

She parcipated in a Facebook challenge where arsts posted one work a day without accompanying it with a text. Thearstwasalsorequiredto suggestanotherarst to parcipate in the challenge. Frema said she was recommended by Akwele to parcipate in the Facebook challenge.

Frema tried portrait painng when she submied her work to the Facebook challenge. She said her usual subjects for painng are landscapes and abstracts. But she was happy to have explored portraiture. She noted that she received numerous compliments, which movatedher.

For the 7-day online challenge, she submied four portraits and painted a dog. She got one of the painngs purchased aer showing it on her Instagram page. Frema expressed her excitement about the interest in her work andthepurchase.

Frema also spoke about her symbioc relaonship with younger arsts, where they support her when she is working and she helps them out with difficules in their work.

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Nana Frema is an arst working in

Accra, Ghana. She graduated from the Ghanaa College of Art and Design. She uses painng as a point of entry into larger conversaons about the human body and especiallythefemalebody.

Her interest is in how boundaries of containment are set to control and produce what is perceived as an “acceptable” female body in today's contemporary sociees through mass media and parcularly social media.

Frema's careful manipulaon of human body parts using thick vibrant acrylic paints on canvas produces textures and surreal images. Frema is an alumnus of CritLab, a professional development programme. This aims to build a networkofartprofessionalswhodesiretopush

A Vivacious and bold artist the boundaries of global art thought, producon,cricism,andexhibion-making.

In addion, she has collaborated with the French Embassy in Ghana on an art project aimed at combang violence against women throughart.

Currently, her body of work, 'Hand Statement', is based on an accident that nearly led to the loss of her hand and the grueling surgery she hadtoundergotorestoreherhand'sfuncon.

She is currently serving as Coordinator for Women's Arts Instute Africa, an organizaon dedicated to supporng and nurturing women creavesinAfrica.