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Studio Serwah Attafuah

“Experimentation is a really big part of my work, so I like to bounce around between painting, digital art, and playing heavy metal music.”
—SERWAH ATTAFUAH

When Serwah Attafuah was 10 years old, she discovered a set of oil paints in her family’s garage on Dharug land/Western Sydney. As a child of multidisciplinary artists, Attafuah naturally began to paint, skipping school to hone her skill, with her parents’ blessing. When they converted the garage into a flat four years later, Attafuah taught herself computer-based art via YouTube tutorials, expanding her portfolio with 3D animation, digital painting, and motion capture.

Today, the 25-year-old artist is known for her

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