Our Kisses Are Petals
Our Kisses are Petals is a new solo exhibition from Lubaina Himid. It originates from new paintings on cloth employing the patterns, colours and symbolism of the Kanga, a vibrant cotton fabric traditionally worn by East African women as a shawl,
We Don’t Need Another Hero
One of Lubaina Himid’s seminal bodies of work is her Kangas from the Lost Sample Book (2011–12). As with the typical kanga fabrics that one can find in markets all over east Africa, Himid’s kangas are emblazoned with evocative
Hard Times
Hard Times is a large scale solo exhibition at the Harris Museum and Gallery in Preston, Lancashire running from March until June 2018. It includes the large installation entitled A Fashionable Marriage, a multi-media reworking of Hogarth’s painting which was the
The Tenderness Only We Can See
The Tenderness Only We Can See is a new constellation of paintings by Lubaina Himid that moves across canvas and wood, in drawers and on case, with one thing speaking to the next. Lubaina states “The paintings in the show
Meticulous Observations
A powerful new exhibition Meticulous Observations has opened at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery featuring works by 2017 Turner Prize nominee Lubaina Himid along with works selected by her from the Arts Council Collection. Also appearing are 20 of her cut-out
Tate Turner Prize
26 September 2017 – 7 January 2018 The Turner Prize is awarded annually to an artist born, living or working in Britain, for an outstanding exhibition or public presentation of their work anywhere in the world in the previous year.
Drowned Orchard: Secret Boatyard
Bury Art Museum, 2015 The piece offers an imagining of lost but cherished sites; the orchard ruined by neglectful pomology, accidental burning, unseasonal rain and swollen rivers, the boatyard needlessly kept hidden (safe) for so long it has been entirely
Feast Wagons
The Tetley Gallery, Leeds 2015 Feast Wagons was a collaborative project with Susan Walsh, featuring a large number of handmade carts and other transportation objects which became artworks in the installation shown at the Tetley Gallery in Leeds in late
Solo exhibition
Hollybush Gardens Gallery, London 2013 This exhibition showed a selection of work by Lubaina Himid along with selected works by contemporary artists including Claudette Johnson, Sonya Boyce and Ingrid Pollard.
Lost Election Posters Series 2
Lost Election Posters 2014/15 Photos: ©Denise Swanson FBIPP
Gwangju Biennale
Folk Museum, Gwangju, South Korea 2014 Lubaina Himid is one of over 100 artists selected for the 10th Gwangju Biennale – Burning Down the House The 10th Gwangju Biennale: Burning Down the House explores the process of burning and transformation, a cycle of obliteration and
Negative Positives
On-going 2007 -2017 British newspapers are often seriously challenged when representing the everyday truths about black people’s lives in text and images but as little time ago as 1985, it was rare to see a black person’s face in print
Keywords
Tate Liverpool 2014 A dynamic exhibition and lecture programme looking at how changes in the meaning of words reflect the cultural shifts in society. Keywords is presented in partnership with Tate Liverpool and is based on Raymond Williams’ seminal text – Keywords: a
Kangas from the Lost Sample Book
Part of COTTON: Global Threads, Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester 2012 Invented texts that evoke a sense of impending danger coupled with our dogged desire to survive. Lubaina Himid is a painter whose recent work has centred on effective ways for artists to
Moments That Matter
Harris Museum and Art Gallery Preston (2012) Moments that Matter : Trophy Cups is a collaboration between WE PLAY EXPO, Harris Museum & Art Gallery and artists Lubaina Himid, Rebecca Chesney, Susan Walsh and Denise Swanson. On the 25th October 2012 at
Migrations
Tate Britain, London 2012 Journeys Into British Art – Tate Britain 2012 This exhibition explores British art through the theme of migration from 1500 to the present day, reflecting the remit of Tate Britain Collection displays. From the sixteenth- and
Thin Black Line(s)
Tate Britain 2011-2012 In the early 1980s three exhibitions in London curated by Lubaina Himid – Five Black Women at the Africa Centre (1983), Black Women Time Now at Battersea Arts Centre (1983-4) and The Thin Black Line at the
Tailor Striker Singer Dandy
Platt Hall, Manchester 2011 12 January–30 April 2011 Lubaina Himid’s work often investigates issues of black identity. In this exhibition at the Gallery of Costume, she has selected from the large West African textile collection in the gallery’s stores
Hunter Gatherers
Rub a Tub Senior – Invisible Wash – Project Space Leeds 2011 Collaborative Project – Lubaina Himid + Susan Walsh We make work about the invisible and the unrecorded. Rub a Tub Senior – Invisible Wash is our most recent
Jelly Mould Pavilion
Northern Art Prize, Leeds Art Gallery 2011 What are monuments for? Creative Times – Northern Art Prize Northern Art Prize – Lubaina Himid in Conversation Currency of Art – Baring & Wolf Liverpool Museums 2010 Imagine which Jelly Mould