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
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
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
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
Hollybush Gardens 1 – 2 Warner Yard EC1R 5EY. Exhibition 11 October – 16 November 2013 First exhibition solo show Lubaina Himid hollybushgardens.co.uk/
October 2012 On the 25th October at 1pm in the Watercolour Gallery, the Harris Museum & Art Gallery hosted a lunchtime talk by Lubaina Himid in which she discussed her latest archive intervention and curatorial project. Moments that Matter :
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
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