Acrylic and lacquer on board, 89 x 125 cm. Credit: Presented by the Contemporary Art Society through the Collections Fund at Frieze, 2021/22

Hetain Patel aims to challenge assumptions about how we look and where we come from. As a child and teenager, he was greatly inspired by comic book heroes. This painting comes from a body of work that grew out of a robbery that his grandmother (called Baa, which means ‘mother’ in Gujarati) suffered in 2015, during which her gold jewellery was forced from her wrists. Patel’s deeply personal paintings ‘seek to retrieve Baa’s gold’, which for the artist is a metaphor for everything that has been taken from his family via the systematic racism experienced in the UK since his birth and before.

This painting forms part of a new collection of works that explore the many facets of family life, chosen because of your feedback through the Harris Your Place project.