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b. 1983 | Ghanaian
Raphael Mayne; Raphael Adjetey Mayne
Ghanaian Artist of Wax-Print Fabric Portraits
Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne was born in Accra in 1983 and trained at the Ghanatta College of Art and Design. He paints and stitches: his portraits of men, women and children, often anonymous and seen in profile or from behind, are built from the printed cotton wax fabrics of the Ghanaian market, cut and sewn onto raw canvas and completed in paint, so that the patterns of the cloth, which in Ghana carry names, proverbs and the symbols of the Adinkra language, tell the story the faces withhold.
He has lived in Germany since 2013, working in Cologne and Düren, and showed with GNYP Gallery in Berlin (‘Assuming you look like me’, 2021), ARTCO in Aachen and at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York.
His work is in the collection of the MuCEM in Marseille and the Harvard University collections in Boston, among others, and has been widely exhibited in Germany, the Netherlands, France and the United States.
