Meet Sirigu Muralists Who Designed the Mural at RedClay Studios In Tamale

If you know anything about mural in Ghana then sirigu should not be new to you, though not certain but almost the important places in the community has mural on various walls.

The Savannah Contemporary Art and Culture located in Tamale owned by Ibrahim Mahama, the artist that brings back the memory of the past.

One of his notable works is the Parliament of Ghost which was exhibited at Machester where he used old train seats and arrange them like the sitting arrangement of the fourth republic parliament of Ghana.

Not only did he use the train seats but some archives of old parliamentary proceedings, GTP clothes deem not fit for purpose and rate pictures of Kwame Nkrumah was also in the exhibition.

He recently discovered a dungeon which belongs to Kwame Nkrumah the first President of the country, aside that he has a studio in Tamale where old aeroplanes are on exhibition and some things used by kayaye in the 2000s to convey things in Accra and other parts of the country.

In a Facebook post he stated:

Meet the Sirigu women who produced the mural at Red clay @redclay_studio . The muralists from left to right: Ethel Asakiwine, Anibire Faustina, Agombire Antapore, Akapali Akarba, Atolia Aniya

As part of public programming for Agyeman (Dota) Ossei's retrospective exhibition 'Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and the Poetics of Peace', a group of women muralists from Sirigu (Upper East Region of Ghana), have been invited to produce a mural at Red Clay in Tamale from 26th to 28th October, 2020. In certain variations of the Kasem language, this technique of wall embellishment is known as Bambolse.

Stay Tune as we prepare to visit the place and bring you all the pictures and exciting stuffs at the Rayclay studios and more.