Ablade Glover

Ablade Glover
FGA, FRSA, CV
Born
Emmanuel Ablade Glover

1934 (age 89–90)
Accra, Greater Accra Region, Gold Coast
NationalityGhanaian
Alma materKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology;
Central School of Art and Design (BA);
Kent State University (MA);
Ohio State University (PhD)
Known forVisual art, painting
AwardsFlagstar Award

Ablade Glover FGA FRSA CV (born 1934) is a Ghanaian painter and educator. He has exhibited widely, building an international reputation over several decades, as well as being regarded as a seminal figure on the West African art scene.[1] His work is held in many prestigious private and public collections, which include the Imperial Palace of Japan, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France,[2] and O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, United States.[1]

Glover has received several national and international awards, including the Order of the Volta in Ghana, and he is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.[3] He was Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Art Education and Dean of the College of Art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology until 1994.[4]

  1. ^ a b Juliet Highet, "Ablade Glover – Ghanaian mirage" Archived 30 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine, New African Magazine, 6 August 2014.
  2. ^ "Ablade Glover: 80th Anniversary", October Gallery, 2014.
  3. ^ "Why I paint women, markets; Ablade Glover Digs Deep", GhanaWeb, 16 July 2012.
  4. ^ "Ablade Glover", October Gallery.