Ace-Liam Ankrah is a Ghana toddler who set the record as world’s youngest male artist
- His mother says it all started by accident when her son, who at the time was 6 months old, discovered her acrylic paints
Even a toddler can make an impact as an artist.
Even a toddler can make an impact as an artist.
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Ace-Liam Ankrah is from Ghana, and he holds the record for the world’s youngest male artist.
His mother, Chantelle Kuukua Eghan, is also an artist. She was looking for a way to keep her son, who at the time was six months old, busy while working on her own paintings.
“I spread out a canvas on the floor and added paint to it, and then in the process of crawling, he ended up spreading all the colours on the canvas,” she said.
Eghan applied for the record last June, but Guinness World Records said her son needed to exhibit and sell paintings.
She arranged for Ace-Liam’s first exhibition in a museum in Accra where nine out of 10 of his pieces listed were sold.
Then, Guinness World Records confirmed the record in a statement and declared that “at the age of 1 year 152 days, little Ace-Liam Nana Sam Ankrah from Ghana is the world’s youngest male artist”.