Edward Prah (b. 1997, Ghana) is an artist living and working in Kumasi, Ghana. Prah has a BA in Art Education (Painting and Sculpture) from the University of Education, Winneba (2016-2020). He finds interest in nature and the influence of culture drives him to experiment with cultural specific materials and objects that coexist with the body. He is currently offering his MFA at the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi-Ghana.He is keenly interested in architecture and African wax prints, a fabric that was embraced and given identity by West Africans dating back to the colonial era. Drawing from his background, he traces his influence from a genealogy of backdrops that have been used for photography in Ghana - photoshopped prints of bourgeois landscape and architecture to the use of wax prints for photography. The wax prints were commonly used as the backdrop to photograph babies in the Ghanaian community during the mid to early 21st century. His works investigate the body in coexistence with everyday objects to underpin issues related to mental health and gender. The artist montages materials; charcoal with prints of architectural landscapes, African wax prints, metallic leaf and fibre threads to use as his language to paint and make objects. Prah captures figures with charcoal and techniques of image transfer to be collaged with African wax prints, specifically floral decorative (an iconology for joy and pleasure) and other experimental materials. His choice of wax prints abstracts the language of identity, lifestyle and culture picked from the taste of various ethnic groups in his country. His current body of works tries to explore the potential of these wax prints and how they can be entrenched with other experimentalmaterials to echo their significance. Workshop Awards, Residencies and Exhibitions: The Contemporary African Photography Prize, Shortlist Photobook Workshop, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana 2024Open Archives GH: Echoes of The Brother Countries, FCA, Accra 2023Access Art X Prize, Diaspora Finalist, Special Mention, Lagos, Nigeria 2023 Critlab, Exitframe, Tamale, Ghana Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany Gasthof, Frankfurt, Germany 2022