Addoley Dzegede.As part of strengthening the position of the TRC as a hub for textile studies and technical skills the TRC has started a new rubric and display theme – namely the ‘TRC Spotlight’. This is a means of highlighting a particular textile, technique or textile artist/craft person.
We are using part of the workroom for this display and it includes a dedicated showcase and various panels to spotlight different stories and themes. Each display will be on view for up to two months. There will also be a digital version that can be enjoyed by a wider audience online.
The first TRC Spotlight pays attention to the American-Ghanian textile artist, Addoley Dzegede, who recently presented at the TRC several workshops and lectures about West African wax resist techniques. Various examples of Addoley’s work are currently on display.
Display: TRC Spotlight, Addoley DzegedeTextboard
In 2019, Ghanaian-American artist Addoley Dzegede was an Artist-in-Residence at Osei Duro, a small-scale batik apparel company based in Accra, Ghana. While, because of her interest in the history of Dutch wax prints, Addoley was already using batik techniques in her work at this point, through Osei Duro she learned Ghanaian batik methods from batik dyer Nana Aboagye, using cut foam stamps.
While in the Makola market, she also found wooden stamps to use for batik. Here you can see some tools she has used or purchased in Makola, as well as experiments she has carried out with the foam and wooden stamps using paraffin and soy waxes.
Bio
Addoley Dzegede is a Ghanaian-American artist currently based in Rotterdam as a Fulbright Awardee in Craft for the 2022-2023 year. She grew up primarily in the US in Florida and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Maryland Institute College of Art and a Master of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis.
Recent exhibitions and projects she has been involved in include Mercantile with her partner and collaborator Lyndon Barrois Jr. at Sharp Projects in Copenhagen; Summer Nights at the Canada gallery in New York City; I Call it Art, at the National Museum of Norway in Oslo, and The Real Show, at CAC Brétigny in France, with collaborator Anna Ihle. She incorporates batik in her work to draw attention to interconnected historical relationships found in textile traditions.
Addoley Dzegede and Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, 30 October 2022
