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
Navigation Charts draws together paintings and installations from the late 1990s to the present day to consider issues of labour, migration and creativity. It takes place alongside two other major UK presentations of Himid’s work: Invisible Strategies, a simultaneous solo exhibition at
The Place Is Here brings together around 100 works by over 30 artists and collectives spanning painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video and archival displays from the 1980s, exploring this pivotal decade for British culture and politics. The exhibition evokes urgent
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 her monumental Freedom and Change, 1984, which appropriates and transforms the female figures
Lubaina has work featured in Frieze Art Fair London 2016 on the Hollybush Gardens Gallery stand G12 Frieze London features more than 160 of the world’s leading galleries. Visitors can view and buy art from over 1,000 of today’s leading artists,