SETH CLOTTEY
SETH CLOTTEY
About the Artist...
Seth Clottey lives and works in Accra, Ghana. He was born in La in 1962 and attended Ghanatta College of Art in Accra. He has been practicing his painting since his graduation in 1981. Clottey is a member of Practicing Artists International (Paint).
His paintings encompass a wide range of subjects from market scenes through beaches and landscapes to City-Scapes and Ghetto like deprivations. An overriding display of passion and commitment expand throughout his works rarely evident among young people. He shows the promise of the future made certain. As an artist, he has a truly made a significant contribution to art, always demonstrating an unwillingness to copy the popularism or settle for the mundane. Seth is charting for himself and his generation new, challenging standards marking him out as a leading catalyst in the current art world.
He has been involved in several exhibitions including; Solo exhibitions; Art Workshop and Restaurant, Benin 2004; Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra Ghana 2000. Group Exhibitions – Expressions and Impressions, an exhibition of prints – Goethe Institut 2005, Best of Arthain School 2007; Independence/ In Dependence by Nubuke foundation at the Artists Gallery 2007, La Accra; Golden Tulip hotel 2000; Mobitel Head Office 001, Accra 2001; PANAFEST 2002; Golden Tulip Hotel 2003; Wangara Hotel 2004, Golden Tulip Hotels 1994 Selected Exhibitions • SOS Charity Show 1995; • Charity Show – Pan African Writers Association (PAWA), Novotel Hotel Accra 1996; • Practicing Artists International (Paint) National Theatre Gallery 2005; • The Loom Gallery, Accra 2006; • Alliance Francaise School 2007; • Goethe Institut, Accra 2004.
His paintings encompass a wide range of subjects from market scenes through beaches and landscapes to City-Scapes and Ghetto like deprivations. An overriding display of passion and commitment expand throughout his works rarely evident among young people. He shows the promise of the future made certain. As an artist, he has a truly made a significant contribution to art, always demonstrating an unwillingness to copy the popularism or settle for the mundane. Seth is charting for himself and his generation new, challenging standards marking him out as a leading catalyst in the current art world.
He has been involved in several exhibitions including; Solo exhibitions; Art Workshop and Restaurant, Benin 2004; Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra Ghana 2000. Group Exhibitions – Expressions and Impressions, an exhibition of prints – Goethe Institut 2005, Best of Arthain School 2007; Independence/ In Dependence by Nubuke foundation at the Artists Gallery 2007, La Accra; Golden Tulip hotel 2000; Mobitel Head Office 001, Accra 2001; PANAFEST 2002; Golden Tulip Hotel 2003; Wangara Hotel 2004, Golden Tulip Hotels 1994 Selected Exhibitions • SOS Charity Show 1995; • Charity Show – Pan African Writers Association (PAWA), Novotel Hotel Accra 1996; • Practicing Artists International (Paint) National Theatre Gallery 2005; • The Loom Gallery, Accra 2006; • Alliance Francaise School 2007; • Goethe Institut, Accra 2004.
