Location

Country: Other
City: at framer

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.

Places

Subjects

mythology, Greek mythology

Materials & Techniques

print (as object name), digital print, giclée, cotton paper, Somerset Satin

Artist

Chris Ofili (1968 - )

Title

The Weaver

Portfolio Title

Greek Myths

Edition

Number 1 in an edition of 500

Date

2021

Medium

giclee black and white print on paper

Dimensions

height: 29.7 cm; width: 21.0 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Victoria Miro, March 2022

Inscription

recto: signed by the artist '1/500 CO 2021', bottom right

Provenance

Victoria Miro, London UK; from whom purchased by UK Government Art Collection, 28 March 2022

GAC number

19044/1