Since 2017, New Jersey artist Bisa Butler has been creating a “quilted fabric album”: large textile portraits drawn from old black-and-white photographs; her most recent series is inspired by images of African Americans taken by the government during the second world war.
The materials she uses – kente cloths and other traditional African fabrics – nod to African American heritage, including Butler’s own as an American of Ghanaian descent.
See more of Butler’s work on Instagram and at Claire Oliver Gallery
