When does an artistic trope stop being art? The incessant repetition of Yinka Shonibare’s trademark batik print is starting to wear thin
Serpentine South, London 12 April – ...
... galleries at the time. Yinka [Shonibare] joined Stephen Friedman after. We were the exception to the rule. Even established artists like Rasheed [Araeen] and Frank Bowling...
... works – from JMW Turner to Yinka Shonibare – in an attempt to redress its colonialist past
Royal Academy of Arts, London 3 February – 28 April 2024
by CHRISTIAN...
... I’ve never been that interested in becoming “skilled” in a specific medium.
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ARC: You also did a residency at Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Artists Space Fou...
... Magersfontein, 11th December 1899, Southern Africa (2020) – more than holding its own alongside three impressive Ankara-cloth-clad mannequins by Yinka Shonibare (I have ...
... from Yinka Shonibare’s Diary of a Victorian Dandy (1998) series, in which the celebrated British Nigerian artist performed in a succession of Hogarthian scenes where his...
From Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable to Richard Long and Yinka Shonibare, what unites these artists and their works across the centuries is a shared concern with the relat...
... who claimed to have been acting in self-defence) while Yinka Shonibare’s hunched figure with outstretched, searching hands in The Ghost of Eliza Jumel (2015) denotes the...
Yinka Shonibare has transformed this annual event into a paean to diversity, bringing work from the invisible and marginalised alongside that of amateur artists and academicians
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... six prints for 2021 by the artists Hurvin Anderson, Alvaro Barrington, Frank Bowling, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson and Yinka Shonibare.
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... and the viewer space to look and focus on individual works.
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There is a dynamism in the first room especially, as the strident stance of Yinka Shonibare’s Ai...
... Natt sits Yinka Shonibare’s The Wanderer (2006-7), a wooden model of a ship with wax printed cotton sails.
Nina Edge’s Zero (1992), commissioned by Poovaya-Smith, is...
... their own against large-scale works by Yinka Shonibare (b1962, UK), Kehinde Wiley (b1977, US), and Ged Quinn (b1963, UK).
Galerie Ludorff showed a few drawings by Andy W...
... forward with a tottering pile of books, by Yinka Shonibare, called Young Academician. The sculpture is a tribute to all the RA’s female members (there are currently only...
... Cai’s absorbing video piece, there is a collection of other works that succeeds only in confusing the whole exhibition. Two classical casts painted with Yinka Shonibare...
... The one-person Kabinett stalls presented like small museum shows, and even disparate pairings, such as Yinka Shonibare’s hand-painted fibreglass figures with Kehinde Wil...
... Love”; “Never again!”) and Yinka Shonibare’s Angel (Red) reflects the distorted visage of Jim Dine’s Poet Singing, First Version. Meanwhile, a profound political...
... north, the only celebrated Africans are footballers; shades of Yinka Shonibare’s Diary of a Victorian Dandy, but with more kick.
Africa’s most bankable artist, Ghana...
... in America and England who considered themselves post-black – Yinka Shonibare, Renée Green, et al. I think of myself in the same way from an Australian point of view. M...
... Blocks (1965; Riflemaker). Turner-prize winning Rachel Whiteread’s Detached 3 (2012; Gagosian Gallery) anchored the imagination in the solid cast of a little hut, wherea...
