Yinka Shonibare: class act at Yorkshire Sculpture Park – in pictures

Yinka Shonibare plays on our preconceptions about imperialism and Africa – this Batik print looks 'African' but in fact was made in Holland for the African market
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Another play on 'African' design, seen from the park's Bothy Gallery
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Revolution Kid (Fox) – fox-headed gunmen reference the Arab Spring
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Like many of the works in this exhibition, Cannonball Heaven plays on the legacy of Britain's colonial past – in this case the cannons are replicas of those on Nelson's flagship HMS Victory
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This work, titled Fire, shows Shonibare's fascination with 18th- and early 19th-century clothes – all with a mocking pseudo-African twist
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As in this work, Waster, many of Shonibare's mannequins wear the Regency or Rococo fashions of colonial times
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Egg Fight: two headless 18th-century gentlemen fire shotguns at each other through a wall of eggs
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Shonibare's re-imagining of African myths continues with 'primitive' paintings, daubed in gaudy colours
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The nails – resembling those found in 'fetish' sculptures from Congo – are painted improbable colours, imbuing them with a sense of irony
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Little Rich Girls: every work in this show is shot through with references to fashion, race and empire
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A theme of flying apears throughout the exhibition, with faceless urchins trying on wings and this work, titled Alien Woman On Flying Machine
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian