As Tate Britain presents the most extensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date. This is a unique opportunity to hear the artist discuss her practice. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye will be in conversation with Nigerian British designer, Duro Olowu.
This event will be introduced by Maria Balshaw and includes BSL interpretation.
Lynette Yiadom–Boakye
Lynette Yiadom–Boakye is a British artist and writer. She 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.
Duro Olowu
Duro Olowu (b. 1965, Lagos, Nigeria) lives and works in London.
The Nigerian British designer is internationally renowned for his womenswear label launched in 2004 and shown twice a year at London Fashion Week. In 2005, he was awarded New Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards and pieces of his work feature in various institutional collections. Olowu has also curated critically acclaimed contemporary art exhibitions including Making and Unmaking in 2016 at Camden Arts Centre in London, Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 2020 and Duro Olowu Selects in 2022 at Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York.
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