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Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom
Before: Baste on Narration (Carmine Lake 2015)
Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom is a British born artist who currently works and lives in London. Boakye-Yiadom’s work re-appropriates collective moments and memories with a continual vested interest in dissecting mono-culture and creating installations with multilayer references. He works with archive material that includes video footage, text, images and sound to exploit performative possibilities of these cultural commodities.
The work chosen for The Head, Before: Baste on Narration (Carmine Lake 2015), responds to the artist’s video installation series showing archive film footage from Russ Myer’s ‘UP!’ 1976, which incorporates monitors showing Hieronymus Bosch pigment colour palette used on ‘The Garden of Earthly Delight.’
The artist reflects, “My work centres where cultures messily collide, merge, grow and complicate. The head is both vessel and filter in processing its reality, witness to its moments in time.”
Boakye-Yiadom is also a recipient of a Jerwood Visual Arts Artist Bursary, 2017.
Boakye-Yiadom’s Solo shows include Quench Gallery, Margate, 2021; Solo Presentations, Jerwood Visual Arts, London 2019; Before: Adaptive Rhythm, Black Tower Projects, London, 2018, 4minutes 6 of Conversation, Naming Rights, London, 2014; Plantain Drop, FORT Gallery, London, 2014; Misguided Warrior, Squid & Tabernacle, London, 2010; Backwash, Gallery Primo Alonso, London, 2009. His work has also been exhibited in such group shows as Michael Jackson: On the Wall, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, 2020;Michael Jackson: On the Wall, Grand Palais, Paris, 2019; Generations: Connecting Across Time and Place, Courtauld, London, 2019; Naming Rights, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, 2017; The Chimurega Library, The Showroom, London, 2015; Balls to the Wall, Dodge Gallery, USA, 2013; This is England, UNO + uno, Via Ausino, Italy, 2010.
Junior’s work is in such notable institutional collections as Arts Council Collection, UK, Studio Museum Harlem, USA.
Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom is a British born artist who currently works and lives in London. Boakye-Yiadom’s work re-appropriates collective moments and memories with a continual vested interest in dissecting mono-culture and creating installations with multilayer references. He works with archive material that includes video footage, text, images and sound to exploit performative possibilities of these cultural commodities.
The work chosen for The Head, Before: Baste on Narration (Carmine Lake 2015), responds to the artist’s video installation series showing archive film footage from Russ Myer’s ‘UP!’ 1976, which incorporates monitors showing Hieronymus Bosch pigment colour palette used on ‘The Garden of Earthly Delight.’
The artist reflects, “My work centres where cultures messily collide, merge, grow and complicate. The head is both vessel and filter in processing its reality, witness to its moments in time.”
Boakye-Yiadom is also a recipient of a Jerwood Visual Arts Artist Bursary, 2017.
Boakye-Yiadom’s Solo shows include Quench Gallery, Margate, 2021; Solo Presentations, Jerwood Visual Arts, London 2019; Before: Adaptive Rhythm, Black Tower Projects, London, 2018, 4minutes 6 of Conversation, Naming Rights, London, 2014; Plantain Drop, FORT Gallery, London, 2014; Misguided Warrior, Squid & Tabernacle, London, 2010; Backwash, Gallery Primo Alonso, London, 2009. His work has also been exhibited in such group shows as Michael Jackson: On the Wall, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, 2020;Michael Jackson: On the Wall, Grand Palais, Paris, 2019; Generations: Connecting Across Time and Place, Courtauld, London, 2019; Naming Rights, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, 2017; The Chimurega Library, The Showroom, London, 2015; Balls to the Wall, Dodge Gallery, USA, 2013; This is England, UNO + uno, Via Ausino, Italy, 2010.
Junior’s work is in such notable institutional collections as Arts Council Collection, UK, Studio Museum Harlem, USA.
