Artist : Gabriel Tendai Choto (b. 1995)
Title : Stranding
Medium : oil on panel
Dimensions : 61 x 122 cm



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Gabriel Tendai Choto’s artwork combines the twin disciplines of printmaking and painting. Through his singular technique Choto seeks new pathways into the painted image by taking cues from the surface quality produced by the printmaking process. His evolving, experimental practice involves layering painted areas of naturalism over the delicate compositional architecture of etching, resulting in paintings where physical presence and absence imply a metaphoric liminal state. Sensitive and intimate, these images include close family members, depicting quiet moments of contemplation or affectionate domestic scenes taken from old photographs, increasingly progressing in to self portraits where through constructed situations the artist examines his own identity. Choto’s intimate paintings draw on themes of home, pride, identity diaspora, change and personal as well as cultural fragility.

Choto was born in 1995 in Harare, Zimbabwe. He was raised in Bradford, Yorkshire and currently lives and works in London. After completing his Diploma in Art and Design at Leeds Arts University in 2012, Choto gained a BAFA in Drawing from Camberwell College of Art (UAL), London, in 2014 and more recently has completed an MFA at Central St Martins, London. Selected group exhibitions include FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London, UK (2018); Flock, GX Gallery, London, UK (2017); Blxckout Revolution: The Exhibition, 198 Gallery, London, UK (2017); BAME, Hotel Elephant Gallery, London, UK (2016); and Long Live the New Flesh, Tower Gallery, London, UK (2015). In 2018, Choto was selected for the Clyde & Co Art Award. Choto’s debut solo exhibition at Anima Mundi featured in 2021 and most recently he has been personally invited by Yinka Shonibare to submit for the 2021 RA Summer Exhibition.