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As London opened its doors to the international art world for Frieze Week, a host of exhibitions and collateral events across the capital...

Never mind that he adds British-Nigerian artist to his name; Yinka Shonibare is every inch a Nigerian. He equally enjoys discussing the thriving African art. Recently, the artist launched Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation cultural centre in Nigeria.

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Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA Photo: James Mollison Last month, figures from across the international art world appeared on screen at the Whitechapel Gallery’s virtual gala to celebrate Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA), their designated “art icon” for 2021. The “i-word” can have cringeworthy connotations, but in this case, no one felt it was too hyperbolic a handle for this much-loved pioneering artist, who for more than three decades, has used his multifarious art to address th...

Principal Investigator CHRISTINE FERGUSON is a Professor in English Literature at the University of Stirling, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of the literary gothic and the British occult revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her publications include the books Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity, and Racial Regeneration in Angl0-American Spiritualist Writing 1848-1930 (2012) and Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin de Siècle...

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA to receive Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon 2021 Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, 2014, Photo: James Mollison. LONDON .-Whitechapel Gallery announced that Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (b. 1962, UK) is the eighth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award, generously supported by the Swarovski Foundation. On Monday 22 March 2021, the award will be presented during a virtual gala celebration hosted by Iwona Blazwick OBE (Director, Whitechapel Gallery), and feature an exclusive mu...