Dela Anyah (b 1986, Ghana) is a contemporary multi-disciplinary artist and author who lives and works in Accra, Ghana. His work is about (creating) beauty from chaos: this he interprets as transitions in our human experience from moments of darkness to light; from a period of ignorance to one of enlightenment; from a state of no value to one of extreme significance.
Using found objects such as discarded tyres and tyre tubes as symbols of our varied broken states as humans (unwanted, unloved, feeling worthless etc), he weaves sculptures that portray our spiritual, physical and emotional transitions from moments of chaos to beauty.
"It was…without value and beauty, and dirt was all over its face and innermost parts…and the Sculptor declared, let there be beauty, and there was beauty... And it so happened that it became increasingly beautiful. And with this beauty came immense value."
