This week Yinka Shonibare’s Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle was unveiled on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London.
Yinka Shonibare is a member of the Iniva Board of Trustees, and has worked with Iniva in the past in the photographic series Diary of a Victorian Dandy and exhibitions such as Alien Nation pictured below.
With the spotlight on Yinka, the library is busy answering enquiries and retrieving all kinds of reference material relating to the man himself for a whole new range of users. If you want to find out more about Yinka Shonibare then come to the Stuart Hall Library. We have a fantastic collection of exhibition catalogues, monographs, articles, and audio visual materials featuring previous work by Yinka Shonibare.
In addition to these materials, the Library also has a unique collection of archival materials and documents relating to Yinka Shonibare which cannot be found anywhere else! We have slides, ephemera, press releases, audio visual material, posters, images, reviews, and interviews available in the Iniva Archive which is made available to all visitors in the Stuart Hall Library.
To find out more about our holdings and materials featuring Yinka Shonibare contact us library@iniva.org or pop in and visit us Tuesday-Fridays 10-5pm.