Beatrice “Bee” Arthur

Beatrice “Bee” Arthur is a Ghanaian fashion designer, curator, decolonial artist, eco-artivist, cultural commentator, essayist, poet, translator, researcher and cultural documentarian whose multidisciplinary practice spans fashion, textiles, visual art, literature, cultural policy and environmental justice. Through design, curation, research, writing and public engagement, she uses creative practice to foster critical inquiry, cultural dialogue and social transformation.

From 2001 to 2016, Bee was the Founder, Owner and Creative Director of B’EXOTIQ BY BEE ARTHUR, a Ghanaian fashion label through which she developed collections, represented Ghana internationally and established herself as one of the country’s leading contemporary fashion designers.

She later served as a consultant to the International Trade Centre (ITC) Ethical Fashion Initiative, encouraging emerging designers to draw inspiration from their own cultural heritage and textile traditions. She subsequently served as Press Attachée to Emeritus Professor El Anatsui, contributing to the communication and management of one of Africa’s most influential contemporary art practices.
Bee currently serves as Fashion Domain Head of the Ghana Culture Forum (GCF) and is a member of the Forum’s National Steering Committee (NSC), contributing to leadership, advocacy, collaboration and policy dialogue for Ghana’s fashion and creative sectors.
She is the Founder and Team Lead of the Ghana International Fashion Team (GiFT), Ghana’s participating coalition of the Global Fashioning Assembly, an international initiative of the Research Centre for Decoloniality and Fashion (RCDF). Since 2022, she has brought together Ghanaian artists, designers, writers, researchers and cultural practitioners to participate in international dialogue on decoloniality, fashion, sustainability and cultural futures. She is also a member of the RCDF, contributing to international discourse on fashion systems, sustainability and cultural policy.

In 2025, Bee founded the Waste Afterlife Art Movement (WAAM), an interdisciplinary movement that uses waste as material evidence to examine overproduction, environmental injustice, consumer culture and waste colonialism. Through WAAM she collaborates with artists, designers, researchers and cultural practitioners to encourage critical reflection on sustainability, indigenous knowledge systems and material culture.

Alongside her artistic practice, Bee is committed to cultural documentation, public scholarship and creative discourse. She is the author of The ARTbeat of Bee Arthur, where she publishes essays, poetry and research on fashion, heritage, sustainability, decoloniality and the creative industries. She is also the founder of ARTFULLY YOURS, BEE ARTHUR, a cultural documentation platform and YouTube channel dedicated to recording interviews, exhibitions, performances and conversations with Ghanaian artists, designers and cultural practitioners, helping preserve contemporary creative histories while making Ghana’s artistic and cultural voices accessible to wider audiences.

Her research-led projects—including Echoes of the Landfill, Madonna of the Plastic Forks, Museum Madonna Macramé, Walls of Elmina and the Fashion Dialogue Series—explore indigenous knowledge systems, environmental justice, memory, material culture and the relationship between fashion, art and society.

Through fashion, visual art, writing, research, curation and cultural leadership, Bee continues to contribute to national and international conversations on decoloniality, sustainability and the future of Ghana’s creative and cultural industries.