New Year Honours 2024
Bolanle Tajudeen MBE
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Founder and Director • Bolanie Contemporary and Founder and Director
“For services to the Arts.”
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London Gazette notice
Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
30 December 2023
THE KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
M.B.E.
To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Bolanle TAJUDEEN
Founder and Director, Bolanie Contemporary and Founder and Director, Black Blossoms
For services to the Arts.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64269 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Member of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2024- Role at the time
- Founder and Director, Bolanie Contemporary and Founder and Director
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- London, Greater London
“For services to the Arts.”
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The Member of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 588 times in the New Year Honours List 2024 — about 37% of the list.
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1,245 Member of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Greater London.
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Founder and Director, Bolanie Contemporary and Founder and Director.
How widely is this recognised?
4,560 people have been recognised for Arts & Culture.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Member of the Order of the British Empire · 2024
London Gazette (official record), issue 64269, notice 4520846. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2024).
Published 29 December 2023.
Location (London, Greater London) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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