The British Museum’s exhibition showcases Yinka Shonibare CBE’s Cowboy Angels, a set of five woodcuts with a collage of Dutch wax batik fabric. The series combines imagery of angels, representations of African masks, cowboy tropes of the American West, and the artist's signature waxprint fabrics. Each print contains a cowboy with angel wings and a face substituted by a canonical type of African mask, with the word 'Angel' written above. Shonibare said they're "A reflection on the zeitgeist at a time of xenophobia, racism and the election of Donald Trump".
The set of five woodcuts were purchased by the British Museum with the help of the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation and are the first works by the artist to enter the Museum's collection.