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Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom's practice spans photography, moving image, live performance, sculpture and sound. Continually learning and adapting through process, he creates installations that evolve, reshape and expose their own making.  Works layer on top of one another: parts of a performance might become a film; the audience might transform into the subject. Each is understood as a moment in a wider, ongoing conversation.  

Boakye-Yiadom is the inaugural recipient of the Donna Lynas Residency – a first-of-its-kind opportunity for an artist at a key moment in their career in memory of the Curator who was widely known, in her roles including as Director of Wysing Arts Centre, as a long-term supporter of artist development.   The residency is supported by four cultural organisations over three years and is a partnership between Wysing Arts Centre, South London Gallery, Modern Art Oxford and Somerset House Studios. Boakye-Yiadom receives £16,000 a year for three years (2023-6) and the support of each partner - including mentoring, use of facilities and potential inclusion in public programmes, if the artist should wish.  

Boakye-Yiadom lives and works in London. Recent projects include Artist-To-Artist, selected by Glenn Ligon, Frieze, London (2024); Dono, Somerset House, London (2024); Before, During & After: Here Soon (How To Keep The Balance), Site Gallery, Sheffield (2023); and Before: Socialized, Circularized, Linearized, Artificialized, Corrupt Time, Southwark Park Galleries, London (2022). His curatorial projects include Trevor Mathison at Atelier Nord, Oslo (2023) and From Signal to Decay: Volume 1 at CCA Goldsmiths, London (2022). 

The Donna Lynas Residency 2022-26 is a partnership between Wysing Arts Centre, Modern Art Oxford, Somerset House and South London Gallery.