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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a painter and a writer of Ghanaian descent. She was born in London, England and she currently resides and works there. Lynettes parents are originally from Ghana and after arriving in UK they worked as nurses for the National Health Service. She attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, graduated from Falmouth College of Art in the year 2000 and completed her Masters in Art degree at The Royal Academy Schools in 2003. Her paintings are predominantly figurative with raw and muted colors. With her expressive representations of the human figure, the artist examines the formal mechanisms of the medium of painting and reveals political and psychological dimensions in her works, which focus on fictional characters who exist beyond our world or in a different time and in an unknown location. She paints figures that are intentionally removed from time and place and has stated, “People ask me, ‘Who are they, where are they?’ What they should be

 As we are working on launching the new Art Exposure platform later this year, we also want to create other contents to help support our main objective that is to focus on contemporary African artists and their art. We want to introduce the ARTISTS PROFILE which focuses on shedding more light on African artist's both known and unknown to the masses by creating this video content that will help the viewers have some knowledge about contemporary African artists on our continent. We have artists that are making it and those that are emerging and we see it as part of our objective to let all be known alongside their works and achievements. This is aimed at getting others inspired and also educating everyone about what our African artists have been up to. HOW TO GET FEATURED ON THE ARTISTS PROFILE If you are also an artists and want to partake in this, you can send an email to us theartexposure@gmail.com the email must contain -images of you and your work -a short biograp