about the artist

British Ghanaian artist Enam Gbewonyo’s enchantment with textiles began early, sparked by a childhood visit to a weaving village in her ancestral home in Eweland, Ghana. Knitting together performance, film, installation, and sculpture, Enam’s practice is an ever-spinning web of self-discovery and transformation. She constructs immersive, otherworldly experiences that chronicle Black womanhood, countering racism and sexism through a lens of healing and celestial expansion. Through her work, Enam fabulates liberatory futures for the Black Collective by reimagining ancestral technologies — using processes such as knitting, weaving, printmaking and ceramics — manipulating these materials into surreal, new forms. Existing as corporeal entities, her works act as both containers for the trauma held by Black bodies and as vessels transporting them to liberated realms. Steeped in pre-colonial African traditions, her art bridges the gap between healing, memory, spirituality, and a liberated future. 

Enam holds a BA in Textile Design from the University of Bradford, UK and is a 2026 MFA Art Practice candidate at Stanford University. She is represented by TAFETA Gallery in London, UK and has exhibited internationally, including institutions such as Fondation H, Madagascar, Bemis Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA and Gagosian, London, UK. She is a recipient of the Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Art Scholarship Award - Cadogan Award, USA (2025), Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award, UK (2022) as well as winner of the Dentons Art Prize, UK (2022), the biannual juried prize set up by Dentons law firm and the New Art Exchange Future Exhibition Prize, UK (2022), a career-development award.