Re-Think: Ship in a Bottle

This board collates photography, craft, design and illustration related to Yinka Shonibare MBE's artwork 'Nelson's Ship in a Bottle' at the National Maritime Museum.
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The figure of Captain Cook understandably dominates the story of Pacific exploration, but one of the effects of his fame has been that the many voyages of science and exploration following him to the Pacific have not received the attention they have deserved, especially in Britain. These voyages, by William Bligh, George Vancouver, Matthew Flinders, La Perouse and Arthur Phillip, span a time that saw Britain become the world's leading maritime power.
Fashion Projects
Yinka Shonibare, Three Graces. The headless mannequins in Shonibare’s Three Graces fashioned in elaborate Victorian garb made out of atypical ‘African’ fabrics and arranged as a tableau satirizes the notions of authenticity and identity. The installation relies as much on the Dutch wax-print cloth ‘ethnicizing’ the space as on the references to 18th and 19th century masterpieces of European art
Headless Bodies From a Bottomless Imagination (Published 2009)
Art - Headless Bodies From the Bottomless Imagination of Yinka Shonibare - NYTimes.com
Shonibare's Ship in a Bottle
Shonibare's Ship in a Bottle
Yinka Shonibare, MBE on Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
Yinka Shonibare, MBE on Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
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Sailor - Nelson's Column Not all Africans in Britain were slaves: on the south of Nelson’s Column is a relief of his death at Trafalgar in 1805. Beside the dying Nelson is a black crewman holding a musket and searching for the French sniper who shot the admiral. Nine West Indians and one African were on HMS Victory at the battle. Trafalgar Square WC2 Tube: Charing Cross