Name: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night, Tate Britain
Start: 2020-11-18
End: 2021-05-09
Location: Tate Britain

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tate Britain 2020

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is undoubtedly one of her generation's most intriguing painters. Her style is heavily influenced by the old masters, painters such as Goya and Manet, but there is no doubt that her work is the product of a modern mind. This autumn, Tate Britain is staging an exhibition of over 80 works by the Turner-nominated artist, the most comprehensive survey of her career to date.

Yiadom-Boakye depicts black subjects out of time and context, pulled from a combination of her imagination and found images and many of her paintings could represent people from 100 years ago or more. She often omits items of clothing, such as shoes, so that her figures cannot be placed too firmly in any single decade, and because so little is revealed about individuals in her in paintings we, the viewer, are encouraged to spin our own narratives.

Speaking of her practice, Yiadom-Boakye says: 'I write about the things I can’t paint and paint the things I can’t write about.' The written word plays a huge part in her life and work and the enigmatic titles she chooses for her paints only strengthens the mystery. This exhibition will surely prove a captivating one and is set to be one of the hottest offerings of autumn 2020.

What	Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night, Tate Britain
Where	Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG \| MAP
Nearest tube	Pimlico (underground)
When	18 Nov 20 – 09 May 21, Open daily 10am – 6pm
Price	£13
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