Invisible Strategies brings together a wide range of Himid’s paintings from the 1980s to the present day, as well as sculptures, ceramics and works on paper. The exhibition opens with Himid’s monumental Freedom and Change, 1984, which appropriates and transforms
The term “immersive installation” gets a lot of airplay these days, but walking amongst Lubaina Himid’s 100-strong crowd of life sized cut-out painted figures who stride, cavort and play a variety of instruments throughout the Spike Island space in Bristol
An article published in the Financial Times this week, by Caroline Roux, explains: An exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary brings together work from the 1980s by artists and collectives shaped by the times in which they were living, and the western
Lubaina Himid, Modern Art Oxford and Spike Island, Bristol A major talent revealed in a joint retrospective at Oxford and Bristol. This dual exhibition is a reminder of how easy it is to overlook a major talent who doesn’t fit
Artist Lubaina Himid on making visible the “invisible histories” of black artists For Lubaina Himid making art has been a part of her life for as long as she can remember. “I’m not sure what I’d do if I wasn’t
President with a torpedo in his crotch: how the works of Lubaina Himid speak to Trump times Born in Zanzibar and raised in Britain, Lubaina Himid makes work about everything from slavery to Thatcher to the cotton trade. Now in
Celebrating the work of British Black Arts Movement pioneer Lubaina Himid 19th January in Inspiration / Art Artist Lubaina Himid has spent the past three decades or so creating a significant body of work that’s as powerful in its activism statements as in its
With solo exhibitions at Spike Island and Modern Art Oxford, archive work included in The Place is Here at Nottingham Contemporary and other work included in a new exhibition just opened at the Bluecoat, 2017 is already proving to be a
Work by Lubaina is included in a new exhibition at the Bluecoat in Liverpool. Public View has been curated by Bluecoat Artistic Director Bryan Biggs. It brings together works by 100 artists who have previously exhibited there and features work from a number of
Influences: Lubaina Himid is an interview with Lubaina published in Frieze magazine January 2017 and also on their website, in which Lubaina discusses here influences and what has shared her art. Read here