User:Bboeschen/Yinka Shonibare

Things to write about: Try to have drafts written up by the end of spring break so other people can peer review us!

-How the Fabric ties into his work: Brooklyn

-More about his disability, and how that effects the way he makes art: Taylor

-Add citations to sentences

-Achievements/awards (there are a few under the "life and career", but if we find a lot more we can separate that into another section.) Sierra

-Pictures of his character works that use the fabrics and more on those works: Bryant

-Double check to make sure the list of works is complete: Sarah

-Update Shonibare's profile pic: Bryant

-Add info about exhibition "Fabric Action": Sarah

-Proofread to fix awkward phrasing or weird punctuation: Sierra

This is a link to Shonibare's official website. It has a lot of information about his artworks and what they're about, and a colossal number of press articles written about him.

http://yinkashonibare.com/home/

This is an almost hour long video and the first 15 minutes are a really great interview with Shonibare. He talks in depth about his upbringing, what his work is about and how his ideas have evolved over time. It also includes some video of Shonibare in his studio working with his team and developing his ideas, as well as clips from his film pieces that many other sources don't/can't show because they don't use video. 15 minutes doesn't sound like a long time, but there's really a lot of information in it.

https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s5/yinka-shonibare-cbe-in-transformation-segment/

This is a page of results from searching "Yinka Shonibare" on the online catalog for the Nelson Atkins Library. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like any of the results are available to read online but there are a lot of really good results. "Yinka Shonibare MBE: Fabric Action" stands out in particular since the fabrics he uses are such an important part of his work. This also acts as a generic link to the online catalog where you can search anything else that might be helpful.

https://libraryonesearch.nelson-atkins.org/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Yinka%20Shonibare&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=MyInstitution&vid=01LINDAHALL_NAM:SARL&lang=en&offset=0

FABRIC-ATION
Article: https://ysp.org.uk/exhibitions/yinka-shonibare-mbe-fabric-ation

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQHPkeedrpU

FABRIC-ATION, located in Yorkshire Sculpture Park, is a collection of 30 different artworks by Yinka Shonibare. It features a wide variety of the mediums he uses including some of his "African" fabric dressed mannequins, paintings, and outdoor metal sculptures. (book) The exhibition's art pieces are centered around Shonibare's usual ideas about colonialism, race and other related political issues (article). What makes this particular display unique is the amount of works that are included (video). FABRIC-ATION includes artworks made between the years of 2002 and 2013, and therefore allows people to see how Shonibare's works and ideas have evolved over time (article). The exhibition also includes two outdoor metal statues entitled "Wind Sculptures". Shonibare has not created any outdoor sculptures like these for other exhibitions, so Yorkshire Sculpture Park is a viewer's only chance to see his work in this particular medium (article). The statues are similar, and are both meant to look like fabric moving in the wind. In an interview, Shonibare describes the statues as "A monument to nothingness". They capture a single moment in time, but the moment itself is insignificant, so the statue is devoid of any meaning (video).

List of Works (notes)
I have compared the list of Shonibare's artworks to the lists that I found in the Library books at the nelson and it looks like it's actually missing quite a bit. Some items in the list are exhibitions instead of works, so the original author may have chosen to use exhibition titles instead of listing all the artworks for said exhibition, but even that is a bit unclear. In fact, it looks like almost none of the 30 artworks from FABRIC-ATION are included. I'll definitely be adding all the missing works to the article.