I create hand-built clay works using terra cotta, a material that recalls the red earth of Ghana. These sculptures explore mythological figures, particularly within an ongoing series on Mmoatia – The Helper. The works engage with ancestral knowledge systems, including herbal healing practices, food culture, and relational approaches to land and ecology.
Cornrow Head Container (Front)
January 2026
Cornrow Head Container (Side)
January 2026
Cornrow Head Container (Top)
January 2026
Fante Woman Hair Container
December 2025
Nua Baa Ketewa Spiral Container
December 2025
Nua Baa Panyin Spiral Container
December 2025
Fante Woman Incense Holder
November 2025
Ma Aboatia Vase
November 2025
Spiral Head Tea Cup
November 2025
Pregnant Aboatia Vase
October 2025
Opanin Aboatia (f)
October 2025
Opanin Aboatia (m)
October 2025
Flower Vase Aboatia
March 2025
My paintings depict scenes from my daily life, transforming lived moments into earth-based, colourful visual narratives. I work with self-made pigments derived from natural materials sourced from my immediate environment, allowing the material origins of the work to remain present and visible.
Mother, Heal Me
April 2025
Natural pigment x acrylic paint
90x122cm
Thursdays Dinner
April 2025
Natural pigment x acrylic paint
94x94cm
Sunset Palmnut
March 2025
Natural pigment x acrylic paint
48x70cm
Black Kite James Plantain Fertilizer
March 2025
Natural pigment x acrylic paint
48x75cm
Mooo!
April 2024
Natural pigment
100x100cm - SOLD
Palmwine Dine
January 2024
Natural pigment x acrylic paint
100x100cm
Grandma's Fufu and Soup
November 2023
Natural pigment x acrylic paint
50x50cm - SOLD
Fufu and Push
October 2023
Natural pigment
50x50cm - SOLD
Plantain Seller
October 2023
Natural pigment x acrylic paint
80x80cm
I work with collage as a language of multiplicity and assemblage, bringing together fragments to form new wholes. Using found materials from books, postcards, and magazines, alongside hand-painted elements, photography, and digital sources, my collages mirror lived existence as layered, relational, and made up of many coexisting realities within a single image.
Asanbosam
May 2025
Asanbosam
May 2025
My Sister
January 2025
My Sister
January 2025
Give Me Pure Wata
August 2024
Give Me Pure Wata
August 2024
Shito Recipe
August 2023
Shito Recipe
August 2023
Duafe
February 2023
Duafe
February 2023
Fante Society
February 2023
Fante Society
February 2023
Mmoatia
February 2023
Mmoatia
February 2023
Independence
September 2022
Independence
September 2022
Merci Ewuresi, is a multidisciplinary visual artist and researcher of Austrian and Ghanaian descent. Her practice spans clay works, painting, collage, and digital exploration, with a strong focus on material experimentation and emerging technologies. Since 2023, she has been producing natural pigments from locally sourced materials, grounding her process in environmental awareness and sustainability.
Her work is informed by African feminist thought, decoloniality, and the politics of representation. Themes of womanhood, cultural heritage, and diasporic connectivity are central to her practice, where personal memory intersects with collective history. Her work has been exhibited in Accra, Vienna, Amsterdam, and Berlin.
Alongside her independent practice, Merci is co-founder of Ɔkyena, a collective dedicated to digitally archiving and reimagining African cultural objects, tools, and narratives through 3D technologies, extending her exploration of representation into digital futures. Her practice affirms complexity, resilience, and imagination across analogue and digital forms.
50+
Artworks Created
8+
Exhibitions
4+
Years Experience
Artist residencies that have shaped my practice, fostering cross-cultural dialogue and experimentation with materials and techniques.
Odo Valley
Busua, Ghana | March-April 2025
Kültüř gemma! x Künstlerhaus
Vienna, Austria | 10.2025-02.2026
Ɔkyena Collective — Digital Heritage Archive
Since 2025, Merci Ewuresi is co-founder of Ɔkyena, where cultural heritage is preserved, reinterpreted, and carried into digital futures through 3D technologies. Find out more by visiting our website: www.okyena3d.com
Let's Connect
Interested in a piece or have a project in mind? I'd love to hear from you. Reach out at merciewuresi@gmail.com