Image: Christopher Myers Sarah-Forbes-Bonetta 2021

Description: Tapestry by Christopher Myers, Sarah Forbes Bonetta as Omoba Aina as Persephone, appliqué textile, 108" x 408", 2021.). The image illustrates a key body of work by interdisciplinary artist Christopher Myers: his bright, patterned tapestries, which draw widely upon global visual, historical, literary and cultural influences and practices and issues such as migration, globalization and colonization. The pictured work depicts the story of a 19th-century Yoruba princess who was orphaned and enslaved in a regional war, given to the British as a diplomatic gift, raised as Queen Victoria's ward, and finally married to a wealthy industrialist. It connects her hybrid identity to colonial history and the Greek goddess Persephone, who was given away to Hades, god of the underworld. This work and body of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.
Title: Christopher Myers Sarah-Forbes-Bonetta 2021
Credit: Artist Christopher Myers. Copyright held by the artist.
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