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All You Need To Know About Digital Artist, Satirical Cartoonist And Freelancer; Originalbigwig Artist

Originalbigwig Artist (born Solomon Baah Aboagye), kicked off his career as a street artist in 2011, before starting to explore illustration and animation through different digital tools.

Since 2013 he has been working largely as a digital artist with a focus on local and global socio-political issues.

His work examines the everyday: shocking news from the media, street life, race and class issues, and religion. He address politics through a critical eye, depicting all its contradictions, shortcomings and faults.

In 2020 he created “Village Voice” a project that seek to investigate city politics and criticize politicians and local authorities through satirical cartoon drawings, which he print and post them on the popular streets of Kumasi, the second largest city in Ghana.

In 2021 Originalbigwig Artist was selected for a course in comics at Goethe Institute in Accra, a medium that he want to explore more.

Since 2016 he has collaborated as a freelancer with the Publishing Department at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.

He like to teach drawing to both kids and adults.

Originalbigwig Artist lives and works in Kumasi, Ghana.

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