Textiles

Textiles — a ghanaian dual exhibition

20 November 2025 – 06 January 2026

The Christopher Moller Gallery is pleased to announce Textiles, a dual exhibition by celebrated Ghanaian painter Ablade Glover and emerging artist Michael Gah. Presented together for the first time, their work bridges generations of Ghanaian art through a shared visual language of pattern, rhythm, and cloth.

For Glover, textiles form the unseen structure of his art. Having studied textile design in London before turning to painting, his masterful compositions, crowded market scenes and urban gatherings rendered in thick impasto, transform pigment into pattern. His palette knife becomes a loom, weaving colour into motion, and human activity into living tapestry.

Gah, by contrast, works directly with fabric itself. Using recycled materials sourced from Accra’s markets, he cuts, stitches, and layers patterned cloth into richly detailed portraits. His figure dressed in exuberant prints embody the dual narratives of beauty and sustainability, giving new life to discarded textiles while preserving their cultural memory.

Together, Glover and Gah explore how the essence of cloth continues to shape visual storytelling in Ghana. Textiles becomes a dialogue between tradition and innovation, between pigment and pattern, and between two artists whose practices, though separated by generations, speak the same creative language.

FEATURED ARTISTS

Ablade Glover & Michael Gah

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