Yinka Shonibare's exhibition at Pearl Lam Galleries, he has a series of work which are based around wealth, power and labour. In response to this he produced small canvases of african textile print on them. However, he also decided to continue this round onto the sides and paint something on that.
I have always left my paintings blank on the sides, nevertheless, from listening to him talking about doing this, i want to do this with some of my work. Some of the photo graphs that i have taken are very blurred and stripped back. I have the idea of painting something like this on the front of the canvas and then on the four sides, painting in greater detail. So similar to my boxes people want to come and look closer, i aim to do this with a painting. You will have to come close to it, explore it and see the outer sides.
I have always left my paintings blank on the sides, nevertheless, from listening to him talking about doing this, i want to do this with some of my work. Some of the photo graphs that i have taken are very blurred and stripped back. I have the idea of painting something like this on the front of the canvas and then on the four sides, painting in greater detail. So similar to my boxes people want to come and look closer, i aim to do this with a painting. You will have to come close to it, explore it and see the outer sides.