Carved wooden masks for Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, African Spirits of Modernism, 2021
In 2019, I was commissioned to carve historic West African masks for artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA.
These masks featured as part of Yinka's art works at the following exhibition:
African Spirits of Modernism
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
4 June – 30 July 2021
yinkashonibare.com/exhibitions/african-spirits-of-modernism
With only a photograph as a reference, each mask is first modelled in clay before hand carving in laminated sheets of Quebec pine.
Some masks are then fully patinated to look aged, while other masks are left untreated ready for painting.
