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Kwamena Boison is a designer, textile artist, and cultural practitioner based in Ghana. Kwamena's practice explores the relationship between textiles, migration, architecture, and circular economies through sustainability-driven, community-led approaches. Using second-hand clothing and natural dyes, he reflects on waste, repair, and Ghanaian philosophies, foregrounding the relationships between people, materials, and the Earth in Ghana and beyond.
Kwamena is the co-founder of The Revival, a community-driven initiative based in Accra and embedded within Kantamanto Market, Africa’s largest second-hand clothing market. Through collaboration with artisans and traders, his practice promotes repair culture and reimagines fashion as a social and ecological infrastructure.
Coming from a long lineage of asafo-flag makers, Kwamena draws on inherited visual languages and communal traditions rooted in Ghanaian history. Through large-scale textile and flag-based works, he reimagines these lineages through reuse and repair, reclaiming space, authorship, and narrative. He has exhibited at Ibrahim Mahama’s Red Clay Studio in Tamale, lectured at Central Saint Martins and the Bartlett School of Architecture, and has participated in the British Textile Biennial.
