"Art making is a form of alchemy, in a way, because you are trying…to make gold from nothing. When it works very well is when you manage to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary."
"Theatricality is central to my work. I want people to enter a different world—a fantasy world—and, you know, for me, that's what art is. It's that world you can enter that's different from your regular, everyday world."
—Yinka Shonibare MBE