YIADOM-BOAKYE, Lynette
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

“Lynette Yiadom-Boakye creates compelling character studies of people who don’t exist, reflecting her twin talents as a writer and a painter.”
—Zadie Smith

This volume gathers around 60 works by British-Ghanaian artist and writer Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, internationally celebrated for her paintings of timeless subjects in everyday moments of happiness, comradery and solitude. The publication includes texts by Yiadom-Boakye herself, writer and filmmaker Kodwo Eshun, and curator Lekha Hileman Waitoller.

Yiadom-Boakye’s lush oils on canvas or coarse linen portray fictitious characters rendered in loose brushwork and set against dramatic backgrounds. The figures are composites drawn from different sources including scrapbooks and drawings. Animals such as birds, foxes, owls and dogs make regular appearances. To look at a Yiadom-Boakye painting is an invitation to slow down and observe, to enter the imaginary visual tales she spins. [publishers’ note]

Published by La Fabrica, 2023
Monographs / Painting