Ofili in Retrospective

At Tate Britain

Ofili Shines Richly More Than Before

Sasha Dee

The Raising of Lazarus 2007 Oil and charcoal on linen © Chris Ofili

Cooltan Arts Centre is a charitable organisation dedicated to use arts for the wellbeeing of the sufferers of the mental health issues. A funyyfarm.org.uk is the website through wich they express their activities.

Cooltan participants as a group went to see the Exhibition of Chris Ofili at the Tate Britain.

Chris Ofili as an artist suffered mental health issues due to hostile criticism on his art.  This article tells part of his story.

When in 1998 Chris Ofili, the son of a black working class won Turner Prize with his divine portrait painting called “No Woman, No Cry”, the critiques turned art world upside down, side to side and yelled loudly from their by-lined columns in the newspapers and periodicals and TV Radio media that the Art is doomed and Sir Nicholas Serota the God of Tate Britain has lost his marbles.

They did not even bother to look at the painting  “No Woman No Cry” second time before putting their pens on the paper or open their mouths and start throwing mud. This is one pathetic example how British media becomes feral and start hounding like a pack of wild dogs. Labour Party just came to power with a landslide of election victory with a young energetic Prime Minister Tony Blair who later on made the word “feral” popular when British Media went after him to tear him apart. Read More »