Yasser Claud-Ennin

Yasser Claud-Ennin is a Nigerian-Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist based in London whose practice explores memory, identity, home and the emotional inheritance carried across generations. Working primarily with oil paint, oil pastel and oil stick on traditional West African textiles, his work draws from personal and family archives to reconstruct moments of childhood, intimacy and domestic life. Textiles such as Adire, Aso-Oke and Ankara operate as more than surfaces within his work. Connected to his own family history, they become active parts of the image: carriers of cultural memory that collapse distinctions between past and present, Nigeria, Ghana and Britain.

His recent practice considers fatherhood and the domestic space as sites of memory, tenderness and identity. Through scenes of care, play and everyday family life, Claud-Ennin examines how our understanding of home changes through distance and adulthood, and how memories inherited or personally experienced continue to shape the present. Since relocating from Lagos to London, these questions of belonging and remembrance have become increasingly central to his work. His practice ultimately asks how memory can become a place we continue to inhabit.