Yinka Ilori designs Somerset House show celebrating 50 years of black creativity
Designer Yinka Ilori has used his signature colourful and graphic style to create the exhibition design for Get Up, Stand Up Now, a show celebrating half a century of black creativity in the UK.
Ilori's design sees the neoclassical rooms of Somerset House in London transformed with bold shades, as a backdrop for art, photography, design, film and fashion by black creatives.
The show is curated by artist Zac Ové, and includes pieces ranging from video work to a Notting Hill Carnival trolley.
These are accompanied by archival photographs, letters and video clips that demonstrate how makers merged the personal and the political to address the issues of their time.
Ilori ? a judge of this year's Dezeen awards ? is a London-based designer, although his roots are in Nigeria, and his work often draws on the colours and patterns of his African heritage. His design for Get Up, Stand Up Now is a riot of colour and pattern. Visitors enter from the Somerset House courtyard through a vibrant multi-coloured door surround, which reflects the brightly hued flags flying outside.
Inside, bench seating is upholstered in a digitally printed cotton textile, designed in the style of wax batik fabric, and the walls are painted in bold hues.
Wall-mounted listening booths are decorated with circles in contrasting shades.
The confluence of tropical colours and vivid pattern continues along the corridor that connects the gallery rooms, in which work is separated into five key themes: Motherland, ...
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