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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, fly in league with the night, edited by Isabella Maidment and Andrea Schlieker ; with contributions by Elizabeth Alexander and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index

contains biographical information

portraitsillustrations

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non fiction

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

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edited by Isabella Maidment and Andrea Schlieker ; with contributions by Elizabeth Alexander and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

fly in league with the night

Fact and fiction fuse in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings: they appear to be portraits, yet the people she depicts are not real but invented. Created from a composite of found images and her own imagination, her characters seem to exist outside of a specific time and place: they feel at once familiar and mysterious. This ambiguity resonates again in the titles she gives to her artworks. The artist is also a writer of poetry and prose, and for her, the two forms of creativity complement each other: 'The things I can't paint, I write. The things I can't write, I paint.' Accompanying the first exhibition to survey her career in depth, this publication provides a comprehensive account of Yiadom-Boakye's practice over the past two decades. With essays by the poet Elizabeth Alexander and curators Andrea Schlieker and Isabella Maidment, alongside new writing by Yiadom-Boakye, this monograph reflects the dual aspects of the artist's practice as both a painter and a writer and provides an insight into her creative process. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, born in 1977, is a British artist and writer. She attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Falmouth College of Arts and the Royal Academy. In 2018, she was awarded the Carnegie Prize

Fly in league with the night