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| Image: Chris Ofili |
Like Peter Doig, Chris Ofili has lived and worked in Trinidad since the early 2000s, a fact that amazed me when I first learned of it, having been simultaneously intrigued and repelled by his infamous "dung" paintings with their dense, intensely laboured, highly decorated canvases.
Since his arrival, Ofili has embraced as he puts it "the continual challenge" of practicing "close to the things that you’re being inspired by". Ofili's decision to relocate to Trinidad like Doig's has since been met with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion in the both local and international art circles. Both artists have recognised the changes which have taken place in their art since they moved to the Caribbean and acknowledge that painting in unfamiliar surroundings can be a fertile source of inspiration.
Since his arrival, Ofili has embraced as he puts it "the continual challenge" of practicing "close to the things that you’re being inspired by". Ofili's decision to relocate to Trinidad like Doig's has since been met with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion in the both local and international art circles. Both artists have recognised the changes which have taken place in their art since they moved to the Caribbean and acknowledge that painting in unfamiliar surroundings can be a fertile source of inspiration.
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