An Evening with Yinka Shonibare CBE RA
This event happened 10 June 2021
Join Clare Lilley of Yorkshire Sculpture Park in conversation with artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, where they delve into his landmark exhibition FABRIC-ATION (2013).
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Clare Lilley is Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, in 2014 named the UK Art Fund Museum of the Year. YSP presents a world-class programme of modern and contemporary sculpture across 500 acres of historic parkland and five galleries, pre-pandemic connecting with over 35,000 learners and welcoming half a million visitors each year.
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA uses citations of Western art history and literature to question the validity of contemporary cultural and national identities within the context of globalization. Through examining race, class and the construction of cultural identity, his works comment on the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe, and their respective economic and political histories.
In 2004, he was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 2010, his first public art commission ‘Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle’ was displayed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London.
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