Yinka Shonibare CBE RA’s interdisciplinary practice examines race, class and cultural identity through the media of sculpture, painting, photography, film, textiles and public works.
Yinka Shonibare is a British artist of Nigerian heritage known for his examination of such ideas as authenticity, identity, colonialism, and power in drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, and installations. His signature element is his use
for mannequins. These brightly clothed mannequins sometimes were headless (Scramble for Africa, 2003) and sometimes had objects such as globes in place of human heads (Planets in My Head, Philosophy, 2011). In such works asDiary of a Victorian Dandy(1998; based on the narrative works of ...