Maku Azu (b.1986) is a Ghanaian artist currently based between Accra and Paris. She is best known for her deeply emotive, abstract and jarring nude figurative portraits painted in oil often featuring multiple selves ; there are no boundaries. Maku’s practice presents an important dialogue on existentialism, identity, womanhood and is an exercise in radical vulnerability.
Maku Azu is a Ghanaian artist currently based between Accra and Paris. After studying International Business Management, she made a drastic decision to follow the path truest to herself. She is passionate about expressing poignant psychological states in her work.
With use of her foundry in Thailand where she has lived for over a decade with her partner, Maku as a multidisciplinary artist is additionally a sculptor. She enjoys creating sculptural self-portraits incorporating sensually engaging, organic, semi abstracted forms within the bodies in resin and bronze.
With every piece she creates, she hopes to inspire a private and sacred space, where she connects with each viewer mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Serving as a mirror to our truest selves.
Current collections:
Saudi Royal Family, Saudi Arabia
British Council Accra, Ghana
Arbeteta Heritage, Madrid, Spain
The Institute Museum of Ghana Accra, Ghana
Africa Women’s Development Fund (AWDF)
Private Collection, United States
Private Collection, United Kingdom
Private Collection, Kenya
World Bank Accra, Ghana
The Art Institute Accra, Ghana
Data Bank Accra, Ghana
Private Collection, South Africa
