Shonibare was raised in Nigeria and currently works in London. He is best known for fabric-covered paintings and sculptures that examine the historical relationship between England and colonized West Africa. Feather Pink is composed of a grid of small paintings on batik textiles installed on a pink background. Batik fabrics are often mistaken for African craft, but they are actually based on Asian designs and commonly manufactured in England for export to Africa, where they are re-exported to the West and sold as examples of traditional “African” crafts. By appropriating these textiles, Shonibare questions established hierarchies between arts and crafts and, more specifically, between Western painting and non-Western artifacts.