Projects in progress
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
Uncomfortable Truths
Victoria and Albert Museum London 2007 The bi-centenary of the parliamentary abolition of the British slave trade took place in 2007. To commemorate this landmark year, not just in British history but in human history, the V&A held number of
Kangas and Other Stories
Peg Alston Gallery New York 2008 An exhibition of paper-works and paintings on small canvases. “They are narratives in intricate patterns, with small portraits and natural objects like shells and plants, as an inspiration for the courage to be bold about
Talking on Corners, Speaking in Tongues
Harris Museum & Art Gallery 2007 Talking On Corners Speaking In Tongues was a mini retrospective at the Harris Art Gallery and Musuem showing work from selected exhibitions including : Uncomfortable Truths at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London Fabrications
Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner Service
Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner Service Judges Lodgings Lancaster 2007 During 2007 the Lancashire Museums commissioned contemporary artist Lubaina Himid to produce an installation at the Judges’ Lodgings. The installations are her responses to Lancaster’s involvement in the slave trade and
Naming the Money
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle 2004 Victoria & Albert Museum London (part of Uncomfortable Truths) and Harris Art Gallery, Preston 2007 (part of Talking On Corners) Naming the Money is a spectacular installation made up of 100 life-size painted cut-out figures. This is the story
Fabrications
CUBE Manchester 2002 Fabrications : New Art and Urban Memory The publication documents Fabrications – an exhibition at CUBE, 11 September – 2 November 2002 featuring new works by Sarah Carne, Adam Chodzko, Nathan Coley, Layla Curtis, Lubaina Himid and
Revenge
Rochdale Art Gallery and South Bank Centre, London 1992, Tate Britain 2012 Revenge – A masque in five tableaux Revenge is a new series of work, taking its place at the forefront of the art of the 1990’s, representing