Climate Shit Drawing 1

Date

2008/9

Collection

UAL Art Collection

Creator(s)

Yinka Shonibare

Code

UAC 709

Catalogue link

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License

Creative Commons

Shonibare studied BA Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art.

He has become well known for his exploration of colonialism and what he identifies as post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalization. Shonibare’s work explores these issues, alongside those of race and class, through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and, more recently, film and performance. Using this wide range of media, Shonibare examines in particular the construction of identity and tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their respective economic and political histories. Mining Western art history and literature, he asks what constitutes our collective contemporary identity today. Having described himself as a ‘post-colonial’ hybrid, Shonibare questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions.

Yinka Shonibare Lithographic print Print Textile Paper 21st Century Silkscreen