Komla Letsu Philip (b. 1987, Ho) is a Ghanaian artist currently living and working in Ho, Ghana. Komla’s practice is driven by the significant need to document urban lifestyles and culture. Focusing on the power memories and imagination in relation to representation and identity formation, Philip creates paintings that confronts issues surrounding representation with the intention to document that which is neglected.
 

He uses bold colours to his subjects, the attire they wear and the places they inhabit in a very surreal way that cleverly feeds our visual hunger. Bold beautiful and brilliant works are successfully composed through Komla’s practice in a manner too proficient to ignore using his imaginary language developed over the past 10 years of his artistic journey.
 

In his words, Komla’s expresses “my greatest inspiration is the innermost satisfaction derived after a quiet time, when I take some time off to explore positive energies found within to make paintings that feed the visual need and breed the admiration from people. I translate illusions into reality by using the vocabulary of painting. I use acrylic paints in all my work because it suits my painting themes; I like innovation in my works because it gives me different opinions every time and my sense of colour also adds some genuineness to the paintings. I try to portray what is in me in a more familiar way.

EXHIBITION 

2021 CHILLI ART PROJECT LONDON

2022 BERMEL VON LUXBOURG BERLIN 

2023 SOLO MASH GALLERY LA

2023 SOLO ARUSHI GALLERY LA

2023 JANE ADVISORY LONDON

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