How to Pronounce Fowokan
#50
Most Popular
Boost
Apr 01, 1943 Kingston, Surrey County, Jamaica 81 years old
Jamaican sculptor
AriesFowokan - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
Fowokan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Family, Facts, Age, Net Worth, Biography and More in FamedBorn.com
About Fowokan
- George "Fowokan" Kelly (born 1 April 1943) is a Jamaican-born visual artist who lives in Britain and exhibits using the name "Fowokan" (a Yoruba word meaning: "one who creates with the hand").
- He is a largely self-taught artist, who has been practising sculpture since 1980.
- His work is full of the ambivalence he sees in the deep-rooted spiritual and mental conflict between the African and the European.
- Fowokan's work is rooted in the traditions of pre-colonial Africa and ancient Egypt rather than the Greco-Roman art of the west.
- He has also been a jeweller, essayist, poet and musician (a former member of the funk group Cymande in the early 1970s).
