Crowning of a Satyr

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Whitehall

Chris Ofili was born in Manchester and studied at Chelsea School of Art from 1988 to 1991. While studying for his MA at the Royal College of Art in 1992, he was awarded the British Council travel scholarship to Zimbabwe. Of Nigerian descent, Ofili found in Zimbabwe an opportunity to reconsider his own identity at home in Britain and how he was perceived abroad. He began to incorporate elephant dung and decorative dots into his canvases, as well as drawing on a variety of influences from Black British culture, including magazines, music and mainstream media. Ofili was included in the influential Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997. He had a major exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1998, and won the Turner Prize the same year. Ofili was the first Black artist to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2002. His work is held in international collections including the Tate Collection and he was appointed CBE in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to art. Ofili moved to Trinidad in 2005 and now divides his time between the Caribbean, London and New York.

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Materials & Techniques

Artist

Chris Ofili (1968 - )

Title

Crowning of a Satyr

Edition

28/125

Date

2023

Medium

40 colour screenprint with 24 carat gold leaf

Dimensions

height: 76cm; width 60cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Counter Editions, January 2024

Inscription

bl: 28/125; br: signature 2023

Provenance

Counter Editions, Margate UK; from whom purchased by UK Government Art Collection, 15 January 2024

GAC number

19250/4