Ofili,C. (2008). No woman no cry . Available: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ofili-no-woman-no-cry-t07502. Last accessed 13th April 2014.
Chris Ofili is a British painter known for artwork making reference to aspects of his Nigerian heritage, each piece of his artwork holds a lot of cultural elements and they also show his meaning of beauty.
Ofili mainly uses the colours red, green and black in his artwork which come from the African flag, each different colour has its own meaning red representing blood shared by the people of African decent.
Green representing the land that had be fought over and black representing the colour of the skin of the Africans.
Ofilis' artwork is built up of different layers of materials mainly being paint, glitter and dung, he also uses the elephant's dung which is chemically treated to avoid putrefaction, odour and flies as small stands to hold up each of the canvas pieces when in display.
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