Internationally acclaimed artist, El Anatsui(b. 1944, Anyako, Ghana) has a long anddistinguished career as both sculptor andteacher – he taught at the University ofNigeria, Nsukka for nearly four decades. In2015, he was awarded the Venice Biennale’shighest honour, the Golden Lion for LifetimeAchievement. In 2014, El Anatsui was madean Honorary Royal Academician and elected tothe American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Major solo exhibitions include Royal OntarioMuseum, Toronto (2010); National Museumof Ethnology, Osaka (2010); Akron ArtMuseum, Akron, Ohio (2012), which travelledto the Brooklyn Museum, New Y ork and theDes Moines Art Center, Iowa (2013); BassMuseum of Art, Miami (2014); and Museumof Contemporary Art, San Diego (2015). In2019, El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, a majorcareer survey curated by Okwui Enwezor andChika Okeke-Agulu, was presented at Hausder Kunst, Munich, before touring to Mathaf:Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, 2019; andKunstmuseum Bern, 2020. Anatsui’s workshave been featured in Ghana’s first National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2019); theMarrakech Biennale (2016); Biennale of Sydney(2012); Moscow Biennale, (2009); VeniceBiennale and Sharjah Biennial (2007); Biennaleof African Art, Dakar (2006); GwangjuBiennale (2004); Johannesburg Biennale (1995);Havana Biennale (1994); Venice Biennale(1990). In 2023, El Anatsui’s largest work todate Behind the Red Moon was unveiled at theTate Modern’s Turbine Hall for the site-specificHyundai Commission which toured to theMuseum of Art Pudong (MAP), Shanghai in2024. His work is held in prestigious publiccollections across the globe including: TheBritish Museum, London; Centre Pompidou,Paris; de Young Museum, San Francisco;Smithsonian Institution, Washington;Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi; LosAngeles County Museum of Art, California;The National Gallery of ContemporaryArt, Lagos; Brooklyn Museum, New York;Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; TateModern, London; 21st Century Museum ofContemporary Art, Kanazawa, among others.Tessa Giblin is the Director of Talbot Rice Gallery at the University of Edinburgh, where she holds a Personal Chair in Contemporary Curating with Edinburgh College of Art. She has recently curated solo exhibitions of Angelica Mesiti, Emeka Ogboh, Samson Young, Lucy Skaer, David Claerbout and Jesse Jones. She was commissioner and curator of Jesse Jones’ Tremble Tremble for Ireland at the 57th Biennale di Venezia (2017), which has since continued to tour internationally. She is part of the acquisitions committee of the Frac Bretagne 2020–2022, and from 2006–2016 was Curator of Project Arts Centre in Dublin, Ireland. Melissa MacRobert is Deputy Director at Talbot Rice Gallery. With a focus on project management, artist commissions, research and touring - she has produced exhibitions with Angelica Mesiti, Emeka Ogboh, Samson Young, Myriam Lefkowitz and Lucy Skaer in addition to various major international group exhibitions including The Normal, Pine’s Eye, Borderlines and At the Gates. She was co-editor of Emeka Ogboh Song of the Union (Talbot Rice Gallery, 2021) and has co-ordinated a number of artist publications including Ken Price A Survey of Sculptures and Drawings (H&W Publishers/DelMonico Prestel, 2017); Guillermo Kuitca (H&W Publishers/Snoeck, 2016); Phyllida Barlow Fifty Years of Drawings (JRP Ringier, 2014); Takesada Matsutani A Matrix (JRP Ringier, 2013).
