2016.03.13 艺术家Yinka Shonibare MBE

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Kirsty Young's castaway is the artist Yinka Shonibare MBE.

His work has populated museums around the globe, with a vivid, subversive and often tragi-comic presence; exploring themes of cultural identity, post colonialism and the impact of globalisation. A Turner Prize nominee in 2004, he has exhibited at the Venice Biennial and internationally.

His 'Nelson's Ship in a Bottle' became his first public art commission when it was one of the art works chosen for the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.

Born in London, his parents moved the family back to Nigeria when he was three. Later he returned to Britain to finish his education but his plans to study art were brutally interrupted when he was 19 contracted the disease, Transverse Myelitis, which attacked his central nervous system and rendered him paralysed from the neck down. He had three years of intensive rehabilitation before beginning again at art school.

He went on to study at Goldsmiths and was part of the Young British Artist generation.



艺术家Yinka Shonibare MBE

他的作品充斥着全球各地的博物馆，具有生动、颠覆性和经常是悲剧性的存在；探索文化身份、后殖民主义和全球化的影响等主题。作为2004年特纳奖的提名者，他曾在威尼斯双年展和国际上展出过。

他的 "瓶中纳尔逊的船 "成为他的第一个公共艺术委托，当时它是伦敦特拉法尔加广场第四基座的艺术作品之一。

他出生在伦敦，在他三岁的时候，他的父母举家搬回了尼日利亚。后来他回到英国完成学业，但他学习艺术的计划被残酷地打断了，因为他19岁时患上了横纹肌炎，这种疾病袭击了他的中枢神经系统，使他从脖子以下瘫痪。在重新开始学习艺术之前，他进行了三年的强化康复训练。

他继续在金匠学院学习，是英国年轻一代艺术家中的一员。