Figurative surrealism is Taku’s visual language and is incorporated with his love of textiles. He has peers in the likes of Kwesi Botchway and Gideon Appah. He has been practicing portraiture and art for 10 years.
Before his short career as an art teacher in figurative drawing, Taku studied and trained formally in Visual Arts and Textiles at the Ghanatta College of Art and Design for 4 years [2005 – 2009] alongside his fellow figurative artist Kwesi Botchway. The Noldor residency will serve as Taku’s debut showing within the contemporary art world. Here, with his mixed-media approach, he will be creating his figurative surrealist series called “It Takes Two”. His work reflects his love of textiles with a silk-screening approach and his commitment to capturing black bodies in the abstract – one as a reflection of the other.