I do like a pattern.

Today I was at the library in Winchester working on reformatting my blog so that I can make it into a book, whilst my daughter did some revision. The library, recently rebranded as The Arc, has lots going on from talks, plays, life drawing classes as well as a small gallery. The exhibition on at the moment is Patterns of Power by Yinka Shonibare RA. Shonibare explores cultural identity and colonialism. He uses African fabrics in his work. African wax prints were introduced to Africa by the Dutch who took inspiration from the Batik designs of Indonesia, which at that time was a Dutch colony.

It was a riot of colour from screen prints, sculpture to woodblock and collage.

No threads, apart from the woven kind, but I found the collage and his use of fabric particularly interesting.