Ablade Glover

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.

[4] Born in the La community of Accra, in what was then the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), Emmanuel Ablade Glover had his early education at Presbyterian mission schools.

[10] Glover's style has been described as "swirling between abstraction and realism",[1] and his subject matter typically favours large urban landscapes, lorry parks, shantytowns, thronging markets and studies of the women of Ghana.

[12] In July 2024, to celebrate Glover's 90th birthday, October Gallery mounted the solo exhibition Inner Worlds, Outer Journeys, having since 1982 devoted 10 shows to his work.