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When we speak in early May, the Florida Panthers 2023 eastern conference champions shirt moreover I love this young artist is in a more open and expansive mood. She’s about to make her first trip to New York—her first trip to the United States—where she will exhibit new work at the Tiwani Contemporary gallery booth during Frieze New York. This new work was made in London and Kampala, where her boyfriend lives and where she’s found, she tells me, a small but thriving artistic community. Photo: Ellyse AndersonThe new work is about a more comfortable home than a futon on the floor of a studio. It’s about making a home in well-worn, lived-in spaces (an armchair with a doily on its arms), or boisterous, energetic ones (a kitchen packed with overlapping bodies). It’s about the things—living and inert—that make a home. In one painting, Prempeh foregrounds a bottle of Waragi gin, an Ugandan liquor and something that she associates with her boyfriend.


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empeh, Steal The Rum Cake From the Florida Panthers 2023 eastern conference champions shirt moreover I love this Kitchen, 2023, oil, acrylic, iron powder, and Schlagmetal on canvas with projectionCourtesy of the artist and Tiwani Gallery Emma Prempeh, Waragi, 2023Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani GalleryPrempeh has given a lot of thought over the years to the idea of what makes a home, not just because the traditional trajectory—go to university, leave home—didn’t unfold for her. Since she attended college in London, she stayed at home (and continued to do so when she was getting her master’s at the Royal College of Art), where she had grown up with two older sisters and a Vincentian mother who was a nurse. (Her grandmother emigrated to the United Kingdom as part of the Windrush generation.) Part of this was COVID, of course, but part of it was just logistics, and it has given her a deeper understanding of how the people with whom you surround yourself—and how they craft their surroundings—affect your worldview. “I always pick up things that my grandma has in her home because it’s just so fascinating to me—the lace I use, the textures, the patterns, even the colors.”


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