Artist caught up in row over Foreign Office queen portrait speaks out

Larry Achiampong, whose ‘pan-African colours’ replaced picture of former monarch, calls angle of some media coverage deeply problematicThe artist Larry Achiampong was in the middle of a karate class this weekend when he took a break, looked at his phone and realised he was embroiled in a brewing culture war.A series of news outlets reported that a portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II taken by David Bailey had been “ditched” for work by Achiampong, Lubaina Himid and Yin