Lynette Yiadem-Boakye: Bracken or Moss
The Background: Lynette Yiadem-Boakye was born in London in 1977 and currently still lives there. She has had many awards and accomplishments throughout her life relating to Art such as being the 2018 recipient of the Carnegie Prize and being short-listed for the 2013 Turner Prize. She is apart of many institutional collections such as the Art Gallery of Southern Australia and the Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut. The Artwork: The type of artwork that Yiadem-Boakye does is mainly oil paintings. Her main area of expertise are character studies where she combines dark hues and characters that are posed in specific, elegant poses. As she described in an interview, she likes to think of her characters are " suggestions of people...They don’t share our concerns or anxieties. They are somewhere else altogether.” Yiadem-Boakye believes that the lack of a fixed narrative makes it so the interpretation of the art is up to the viewer and their imagination can run wild. Most ar