The Gallery, The Arc, Winchester - Saturday 14 February to Wednesday 3 June 2026
This new exhibition presents a selection of artworks spanning 20 years of the artist’s career, including 40 woodblocks and screenprints, and featuring The Crowning (2007), a large-scale sculpture on loan from the Arts Council Collection. This witty, sumptuous piece shows the critical cross-examining of contemporary and historic sensibilities for which Yinka Shonibare is famed.
Shonibare is a Royal Academician and internationally acclaimed artist who explores and confronts history and identity, often through the lens of art history and its figures of cultural power. In reference to complex relations between Africa and Europe, the artist reworks his signature motif of Batik fabric, itself a product of coloniality, into gripping and playful mixed media works.
We are indebted to Cristea Roberts Gallery and Yinka Shonibare’s studio for their support.
Portrait of Yinka Shonibare. Photography by Tom Jamieson. Image © Yinka Shonibare and Tom Jamieson.
Image credit: African Flower Magic I, 2025. Relief print with woodblock and batik fabric collage on Somerset Tub Sized Satin Radiant White 410gsm paper
African Roots of Modernism (Gba gba), 2023. Resin and carbon fibre sculpture hand-painted in acrylic and mounted onto a patinated brass base
