Tile panel, glazed ceramic, London, 2016
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
2016
Mawuena Kattah is an interdisciplinary artist working across ceramics, textiles, painting and print. Her work draws upon an extensive personal archive of family photographs taken in Ghana over a number of decades as well as more recent studio photographs of family taken in London.
Her work brings people and pattern together in complex, vibrant compositions and embodies a strong sense of community, creating environments that invite the subjects of her portraits and others to share in a growing social fabric of people, artworks, ceramics and textiles. Glazed ceramic tile frieze The tile panel was purchased by the V&A at the Crafts Council Collect Fair in February 2020.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 2
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- glazed ceramic
- Dimensions
- Height: 165 cm; Width: 125 cm; Weight: 50 kg
Technical characteristics
- Maker recorded
- Mawuena Kattah; Intoart
- Place recorded
- London
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London collection record for this single object (sentences kept verbatim apart from removed sale or rarity wording); how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Candidate id
- vam-O1534149
- Museum object name
- Tile Panel
- Holding institution
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Museum object number
- C.30:1 to 9-2020
- Museum system number
- O1534149
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm the wider type, maker and dating against a specialist reference; this entry documents one recorded example.