Yinka Shonibare Creates a Work for the Campaign Against Cuts

LONDON.- A striking new work by Fourth Plinth artist Yinka Shonibare was unveiled today as part of the campaign supported by over 100 leading British artists against the government’s proposed funding cuts of the arts. The artist’s work shows a slash across a piece of brightly coloured African fabric with the caption: Stop Cutting. Yinka Shonibare MBE has become well known for work that explores issues of race and class through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and, most recently, film. He often uses African fabrics to explore issues about identity and culture in contemporary society. He was a Turner prize nominee in 2004 and he was awarded an MBE, a title that he has added to his professional name. His commission for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, was installed in May this year and in June a major new public art work covering the gable end of a thirteen-storey tower block, commissioned by the South London Gallery to celebr

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