Visual artist / Accra, Ghana

El-ham
Tabsoba

Close view of shredded recycled plastic embedded in a white artwork surface

Material detail

Recycled plastic, collected from waste streams in Ghana

El-ham Tabsoba’s figurative paintings bring childhood, inheritance and environmental responsibility into the same field. Working in oil with shredded recycled plastic from Accra's waste streams, she asks what one generation leaves behind for the next.

About the practice

Selected works

A blue figure looking sideways, surrounded by looping black lines made with recycled plastic.

Looking Through You

2025

Oil and recycled plastic on canvas
46 × 51 cm

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Two blue figures embracing while black recycled-plastic lines travel across a pale ground.

Over and Beyond

2025

Oil and recycled plastic on canvas
94 × 97 cm

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Two blue figures leaning together, one resting their head on the other’s right shoulder, against black recycled-plastic lines.

Right Shoulder

2025

Oil and recycled plastic on canvas
97 × 59 cm

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A blue-painted man facing forward amid looping black forms made with recycled plastic.

Blue Man

2025

Oil and recycled plastic on canvas
57 × 50 cm

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Upcoming Exhibitions

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4 October–4 November 2026

Beyond Creation

Humanity, Nature and Spirituality — A Universal Message

Format
International group exhibition
Opening
5 October 2026, 5 pm
Venue
Centre for National Culture, Accra (Arts Centre)
Location
John Evans Atta Mills High Street, Accra, Ghana
Curators
Nuna Adisenu-Doe and Andrea Walter Ghia
Organiser
Co-organised by the Embassy of Italy in Ghana and Togo
Occasion
Marking the 800th anniversary of the death of Saint Francis of Assisi
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November 2026

Reassembled Realities

A solo exhibition by El-ham Tabsoba

Format
Solo exhibition
Venue
Nubuke Foundation
Location
7 Lomé Close, East Legon, Greater Accra, Ghana
Organiser
Presented at Nubuke Foundation

Exact dates, opening time and curatorial details to be announced.

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