Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British artist and writer known for her enigmatic portraits of fictional people. Her paintings often allude to historic European portraiture but have a contemporary approach. Her exhibition will bring together eighty paintings, drawings, and prints from private and public collections, with thematic essays offering in-depth discussion of her practice. The publication will position Yiadom-Boakye's extraordinary creative output over the past twenty years within a wider history of portraiture and representation, with particular focus on black subjects.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 01 October 2020
Publisher: Tate Publishing

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977) is a British artist and writer renowned for her enigmatic portraits of fictional individuals. Her paintings frequently reference historic European portraiture, notably Thomas Gainsborough, Francisco de Goya, John Singer Sargent, and Edouard Manet, while her approach remains decidedly contemporary. Through her focus on the depiction of imagined black characters, Yiadom-Boakye's paintings raise significant questions about identity and representation. This lavishly illustrated volume will accompany the first major survey of Yiadom-Boakye's work, which will bring together around eighty paintings, drawings, and prints from private and public collections across Europe and the United States. Thematic essays will provide in-depth discussion of the artist's practice since her graduation from the Royal Academy of Art, London, in 2003, and her work will be presented alongside her own writing and poetry. The publication will also seek to position Yiadom-Boakye's extraordinary creative output over the past twenty years within a wider history of portraiture and representation, with particular focus on black subjects, and will include an essay by the Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander responding to the artist's work. Yiadom-Boakye was awarded the prestigious Carnegie Prize in 2018 and was the 2012 recipient of the Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Prize. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2013. This is the first survey of Yiadom-Boakye's work to be published and will offer the most extensive overview of the artist's work to date.

Weight: 1004g
Dimension: 149 x 220 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781849767040