April March 2012 Thin Black Line(s) – Prof Lubaina Himid MBE and Paul Goodwin 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
Tuesday 28th February 2012 Conway Hall Speakers included Lubaina Himid, Sutapa Biswas, Ella Spencer Mills, Claudette Johnson and Ingrid Pollard. Invited Guests included Griselda Pollock, Alan Rice, Celeste Bernier, Chantal Oakes, Marlene Smith, Geoff Quilley, For more details go to
11 February – 13 May 2012 Late winter and spring sees all the ground floor galleries at the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, combining to tell a compelling story about the production, consumption and global trade in cotton. With exhibits ranging in
31 January – 12 August 2012 Migrations is a new exhibition that 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 seventeenth century Flemish and
Artists respond to the Artemis Collection Lubaina Himid and Susan Walsh have made a themed selection of obsolete domestic apparatus from the Artemis collection – washtubs, dollies and washboards – which they have assembled with their own materials into a number
12 January 30 April 2011 Lubaina Himid explores provocative issues around black identity, and for this show, she has researched and selected pieces from the gallery’s West African textile collection. She has re-interpreted these in large cut-out figures, painted to
Nov 2010 – Feb 2011 Northern Art Prize 2010 Lubaina Himid is this years winner of the Northern Art Prize – People’s Choice Award A packed crowd came to the prize giving ceremony at Leeds Art Gallery last night to
Nov 2010 – Jan 2011 Lubaina Himid has been shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize 2010. The shortlist was chosen from an initial field of 22 artists, each chosen via another feature of the NAP, selection through curators of 11
Professor Lubaina Himid has been awarded an MBE in the Queens Birthday Honours 2010 announced on the 12thJune. Professor Himid has been recognised for her services to Black Womens Art. As an artist, writer and curator she has participated at
27 March 2010 – 6 June 2010 Sudley House will be the starting point for a city-wide trail of jelly mould pavilion models by artist Lubaina Himid. Lubaina’s project questions how we commemorate people of the African diaspora and their contribution