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Visual Arts

Yinka Shonibare, William Morris Gallery

07 Feb 15 – 07 Jun 15, Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am - 5pm

Can’t chose from the London new openings? William Morris Gallery launches major commission by Turner Prize nominee Yinka Shonibare

By CW Contributor on 18/1/2015

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© Copyright the artist, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and The Church of England Record Centre. Commissioned by William Morris Gallery Yinka Shonibare MBE, 'The William Morris Family Album', 2015
© Copyright the artist, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and The Church of England Record Centre. Commissioned by William Morris Gallery Yinka Shonibare MBE, 'The William Morris Family Album', 2015
Yinka Shonibare, William Morris Gallery Yinka Shonibare, William Morris Gallery Ali Godwin
The William Morris Gallery, London presents the outcome of their first major commission, a photographic exhibition by Turner Prize nominee Yinka Shonibare MBE.
Yinka Shonibare photography and William Morris
British Nigerian artist Shonibare makes for a fascinating, if unexpected counterpart to the Victorian poet and social activist William Morris. Yinka Shonibare’s art has always interrogated the global textile trade and its links with imperialism; and as Britain’s most famous textile designer, Morris offers a natural subject choice.
William Morris Gallery exhibition
For this commission Shonibare has recreated a number of photographs inspired by Morris’s private family albums, refashioning the sitters’ demure Victorian attire with colourful batik dyed fabrics. Keen to integrate the wider social context of Waltham Forest, Shonibare invited local families to help re-stage the photographs.
This photography exhibition in London is a celebration of the rich history of textiles and exhibition will delight lovers of both the nineteenth century and contemporary art. As Shonibare muses, “the photographs are a celebration of costumes, textiles and diversity in the Morris world from a 21st century perspective.”



What Yinka Shonibare, William Morris Gallery
Where William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road Walthamstow, E17 4PP | MAP
Nearest tube Walthamstow Central (underground)
When 07 Feb 15 – 07 Jun 15, Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am - 5pm
Price £Free
Website Click here for more information



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    Shonibare first became interested in Dutch wax fabric at art school when a tutor asked him why his art was not more authentically “African”. When he began to think about what this might mean, he started to research the fabric so strongly associated with the continent. Fittingly, he discovered there was little authentically “African” about it: it in fact originates in Indonesia as batik, and is then mass-produced in the Netherlands before being exported to Africa. 

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    We recommend a visit to the free William Morris Gallery Late on 4th June (6.30-10.30pm) for an evening of blues jazz from harmonica extraordinaire Errol Linton, Adam Blake and Lance Rose. Click here for more information. 

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