David Oyelowo: ‘Like a lot of immigrants, my dad was all about work, work, work’
In his downtime, David Oyelowo enjoys watching mixed martial arts. There is something pure, he has said, about two people entering a cage and one exiting the winner. It’s a meritocracy he admires: brutal but fair. Suffice to say, his latest character – that of Coriolanus, Shakespeare’s most ruthless Roman warrior, a man who “moves like an engine” – would also be a fan.At 48, Oyelowo looks not unlike an MMA fighter himself. Even in the knitted sweater and painter’s jacket he’s got on today, the actor seems substantial and sinewy. “I bulked up for practical reasons,” Oyelowo tells...
David Shrigley installs giant praying mantis sculpture at former school
David Shrigley has returned to the school where he first took his first proper art lessons, bringing along a giant praying mantis sculpture.The Turner-nominated artist was a student at Beauchamp College in Oadby, a town on the outskirts of Leicester, from 1983 to 1987, when he was aged 14-18.He went on to take the Art and Design Foundation course at Leicester Polytechnic, then completed his education at the Glasgow School of Art – and is now a leading British artist working across different mediums.Shrigley, 56, is loaning his new sculpture – The Mantis Muse – to Beauchamp College to...