YINKA SHONIBARE CBE

ARISTOCRAT I
2018
From a set of six relief prints with woodblock and fabric collage on Somerset Tub Sized Satin 410gsm paper
84 × 62cm
Edition 17 of 25
Framed
Guide Price: £5,000

Yinka Shonibare CBE was born in 1962 in London and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. He now lives and works in London. His work explores issues of race and class through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and film. Having described himself as a ‘post-colonial’ hybrid, Shonibare questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions. His trademark material is the brightly coloured ‘African’ batik fabric he buys at Brixton market. The fabric was inspired by Indonesian design, mass-produced by the Dutch and eventually sold to the colonies in West Africa. In the 1960s the material became a new sign of African identity and independence.

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