Career
He has exhibited widely, building an international reputation over several decades, as well as being regarded as a seminal figure on the West African art scene. His work is held in many prestigious private and public collections, including at the Imperial Palace of Japan, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization headquarters in Paris and Chicago"s O"Hare International Airport. He was Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Art Education and Dean of the College of Art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology until 1994.
Born in Accra in what was then the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), Glover did teacher training at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (1957-1958), before winning a scholarship to study textile design at London"s Central School of Art and Design (1959-1962).
He returned to Ghana to teach for a while, before another scholarship, given by Kwame Nkrumah, enabled Glover to study art education at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1964-1965), where he began to use the tool that shaped his technique when his teacher suggested a palette knife to apply paint, rather than brushes. Glover went on to further his education in the United States, first at Kent State University, where he earned his master"s degree, and then at Ohio State University where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1974.
Returning to Ghana after receiving his doctorate, Glover taught for the next two decades at the College of Art in the University of Kumasi, becoming Department Head and College Dean. He founded the Accra-based Artists Alliance Gallery, which has roots in an earlier gallery he founded in the 1960s and in its new incarnation was opened by Kofi Annan in 2008.
As well as being an outlet for Glover"s own work, this gallery features the work of other significant artists such as Owusu-Ankomah and George O. Hughes, together with collectible local artifacts.
