Raimi Olakunle Gbadamosi (born 1965 in Manchester ) is a contemporary British conceptual artist and writer. His work addresses themes of identity and art theory, using his trademark motif of yellow, white and black.
14-928: Raimi is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name [ edit ] Raimi Gbadamosi (born 1965), British artist and writer Raimi Kola (born 1995), Beninese footballer Raimi Merritt (born 1993), American wakeboarder Raimi Nor (born 1986), Malaysian footballer Surname [ edit ] The Raimi brothers Ivan Raimi (born 1956), American physician and screenwriter Sam Raimi (born 1959), American filmmaker Ted Raimi (born 1965), American actor, director, and writer Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi (born 1984), Yemeni detained at Guantanamo Bay Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi (born 1970), Nigerian actress Kim Raimi (born 1985), Finnish football manager and player Yasameen Al-Raimi (born 1985), Yemeni sports shooter Fictional characters [ edit ] John Raimi, protagonist of
28-532: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Raimi Gbadamosi His middle name stems from the words "Ola" meaning "wealth" and "Kunle" meaning "surplus at home" in Yoruba . Gbadamosi attained his doctorate in fine art from The Slade , London , in 2001. He also has an MA in fine art from Manchester Metropolitan University (1995) and a BA in fine art from Staffordshire University (1994). Gbadamosi taught fine art as an honorary research fellow at
42-703: The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds , Novas in Liverpool and the Centre for Contemporary Art, University of Central Lancashire . Through his website, spectators may download and keep 'Free' artworks by the artist, predominantly in the form of written text. Gbadamosi has exhibited his work throughout Britain as well as internationally. In 2020 Gbadamosi was selected to judge the Sasol New Signatures art award. Due to
56-631: The COVID-19 pandemic, the competition was cancelled. This article about an artist from the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery The Box is a museum, gallery and archive in Plymouth , Devon, England, opened in 2020 housing a collection of about 2 million items. The core of the building was previously Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery which closed in 2016. The building
70-903: The Cottonian Collection. It had been put together principally by the collector Charles Rogers (1711–1784), and includes works by Sir Joshua Reynolds who was born locally. The collections also include work by artists of the 19th-century Newlyn School , the influential 20th-century St. Ives group of painters, and the Camden Town Group . Other artists represented are Edgar Degas , Edward Burne-Jones , Paul Nash , Stanley Spencer , John William Waterhouse , Claude Lorrain , Terry Frost , J. M. W. Turner , John Brett , John Everett Millais , Ambrose Bowden Johns , Benjamin Robert Haydon , James Northcote and Samuel Prout . The latter four painters were born locally. The Museum and Art Gallery
84-666: The Local Studies and Reference collection from the Central Library onto one site. The former SWFTA archive has been merged with other film collections now held by The Box as part of their Moving Image collection. The Box holds all rights to the Westward Television and TSW archives, and is in control of any private or commercial licensing. It has been criticised for making this process needlessly bureaucratic in nature There are permanent galleries, research facilities and
98-532: The Museum's world cultures, Ancient Egypt , archaeology and local/maritime history collections were opened as part of a refurbishment project. The renovated ground floor galleries were formally opened by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 25 May 2009. He was Patron of the Friends of Plymouth City Museums & Gallery, which was founded in 1951, at the time. Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery closed its building at
112-723: The Slade School of Art and has also curated various group exhibitions. As a writer, he has had his work published in the arts journal Third Text , among other publications. He has also lived in Johannesburg, South Africa where he taught fine art at the University of the Witwatersrand and at the University of Pretoria . He left the University of Pretoria in 2018. According to Zoe Li, of Arts Council England : "Raimi's work investigates
126-488: The complexity of social and cultural politics, often challenging our view on ethnicity, race and culture." Key pieces include "Swadsquad", a three-sided chess board. In 2007 he participated with commissioned artists at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery , where he created an alternative tour of the museum entitled Drakes Circus , drawing attention to objects of interest relating to slavery . Examples of Gbadamosi's work are held in several public art collections, including
140-460: The human history collection alongside artifacts from ancient Egypt and other ancient cultures of Europe and the Middle East . The art collections include 750 easel paintings , over 3,000 watercolours and drawings, at least 5,000 prints and a sizeable collection of sculptures. A large proportion of the art was donated to the people of Plymouth in 1852 by William Cotton (1794–1863) and is known as
154-403: The start of September 2016 for major redevelopment. It re-opened in 2020 as The Box, Plymouth which encompassed the Museum and Art Gallery, former Central Library and St Luke's Church buildings with a major new extension designed by Atkins . It brought collections from the museum, Plymouth and West Devon Record Office , South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA), South West Image Bank and
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182-715: Was created in 1907–1910 by Thornely and Rooke in Edwardian Baroque style. and was combined with the former Central Library building and St Luke's Church on Tavistock Place into The Box. The Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery's collections were transferred to The Box. They encompass fine and decorative arts , natural history and human history . The natural history collection consists of over 150,000 specimens and an historic natural history library and archive. Many prehistoric artefacts from Dartmoor , important Bronze Age and Iron Age material from Mount Batten and medieval and post-medieval finds from Plymouth are found in
196-593: Was owned and operated by Plymouth City Council . It also received operational funding from Arts Council England through its Major Partner Museums scheme. Additional grants for specific projects, acquisitions and conservation duties came from funding bodies such as the Heritage Lottery Fund , The Art Fund , the Wolfson Foundation and the V&;A Purchase Grant Fund. In early 2009, four new galleries showcasing
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