Article relating to an individual, 2010
Year published: 2010
Number of pages: 1

One of several substantial press features on Yinka Shonibare’s Fouth Plinth sculpture. the full title of the piece was Bottle of Trafalgar: celebrating Nelson’s victory as multiculturalism triumph on fourth plinth. Written by Charlotte Higgins, Chief arts writer, the piece was accomanied by a substantial colour photograph taken moments after the work was unveiled. The article appeared in the Guardian on Tuesday 25 May 2010, on page 11. Also present, within the piece, is a supplementary review of the work by Adrian Searle, titled Rule Britannia - shipshape and slightly kitsch. From the piece, “The unveiling of the sculpture allowed the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, the opportunity to show that, in the distant past, he may have read Swallows and Amazons. “Pull on the mainsail!” he cried, with rather more enthusiasm than nautical accuracy as the fabric cover failed to come off at first tug.” From Searle’s piece (View from Below), “ Shonibare’s work is the sort of thing one might come across in a coastal shopping mall, and it sits on a plinth as though on a mantlipiece. I suppose I ought not to like it, but I do, very much.”