Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye

Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye (born 1985) is a writer, performer and maker of artwork, integrating the visual, written and spoken word through print, text, image and live performance. Eno-Amooquaye creates the environments in which she performs her writing, developing complementary stage sets and bespoke garments.

A number of significant works have been exhibited and performed in major contemporary art galleries and museums in the UK including Flat Time House, London (2021), and internationally at White Columns, New York (2022). Previous exhibitions include Whitechapel Gallery, London (2009), Texture Museum, Belgium (2017) and her solo exhibition at the Poetry Library, Southbank Centre London (2014).

Her most recent performance Art Deco Zebra Crossing was developed at Flat Time House, an archive and artist’s residency space in the former home and studio of John Latham (1921—2006). Eno-Amooquaye’s long-form poem was enhanced by a velvet dressing screen, silk wall hangings and bespoke printed silk dress. The piece explores the intersections of writing, scenography, and performance within the domestic setting of Flat Time House.

The central elements from Art Deco Zebra Crossing reappear at White Columns, New York alongside African Bird Dynasty, a group of four new large-scale silk wall hangings that combine Shibori tie dyeing and hand screen printing. Each of these wall-hangings function as a backdrop to a scene to be performed by Eno-Amooquaye as part of a new film.

Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye has been a member of the London based collective Intoart since 2007.