FAMOUS ARTIST Enoch Nii Amon Hammond

Enoch Nii Amon Hammond is a multi- disciplinary visual artist (born 1996),who works and lives in Accra ,Ghana. Nii Amon works across installations, paintings and an original technique of horncrafted artworks. Nii Amon’s work utilises cow horns as the primary input. As an artist he shows an incomparable capacity to experiment in his practice to solve problems in his environment.

Developing his own weaving technique to cut, shape and assemble cow-horns pieces into a baffling puzzle using nothing else but the horn and a fishing line to create expressive and emotive portraits of mysterious figures. He focused on capturing expressions of black people with the natural colour and aesthetics embodied in the cow horns.His work is inspired by socio-cultural and people surrounding him. Nii Amon has since embraced his practice “Afrohornism” after his material choice, which has a unique relationship to Ghana and Africa.

Nii Amon is a recipient of the CFAO young Talent Art competition (2022) taking home the third prize. His work has been featured at the Accra Art Week showcase in Accra, 2022 and in Los Angeles, California, 2023.