Working with Yinka Shonibare on commission 'The British Library'

Very happy to have been one of the collaborators in creating this awesome project by Yinka Shonibare.
'The British Library' was co-commissioned by Brighton Festival and House 2014, and open from 3rd - 22nd June in Brighton.

As the lead artist for this year’s HOUSE, Yinka Shonibare MBE’s new sculptural installation explores the impact of immigration on all aspects of British culture and considers notions of territory and place, cultural identity, displacement and refuge.

The shelves of the Old Reference Library are filled with books colourfully bound in Shonibare’s trademark wax cloth (itself a cross-cultural hybrid of Indonesian design and Dutch manufacture). On the spines are the names of people, both celebrated and unfamiliar, who, as immigrants, made unique contributions to our way of life; people like TS Eliot, Henry James, Hans Holbein, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zaha Hadid and many more.

For more information visit http://brightonfestival.org/event/2340/yinka_shonibare_mbe/