Message in a Bottle Workshop

This workshop will unlock the meaning held in Yinka Shonibare's Ship in a Bottle and its iconic Dutch wax sails. Design your very own pattern and, using a batik printing process, create your own personalised printed fabric. Learn more about the significance of this fabric to the artwork, artist and its importance to African cultural identities today. In the second part of the workshop, we will look at the power of letters, exploring what they say about you and your hopes for the world. Explore the debate around a letter written by Lord Nelson on HMS Victory concerning abolition — views which he states, were shaped by his heritage. How has your heritage shaped your ideas about the world? Join us in this letter writing workshop and consider a letter as a force for good. What would you write?