Making Histories Visible is changing again. Since 2002 we have tried to be at the centre of the attempt to rewrite the history of art. To begin with we simply collected materials together rather than throw them away! Then we put things in order by collating, labelling and categorizing. We had boxes of letters, brochures, […]
Influences and Inspirations of Literature and Language on Black Women’s Creativity 16th – 17th January 2020 University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK This 2-day Symposium is part of UCLan’s celebration of the achievements of Prof Lubaina Himid,CBE, RA, who became the first black woman to win the Turner Prize in 2017. 16th January 11:00-17.30, Media […]
Featuring work from women artists from culturally diverse backgrounds, exploring sound as a subject and a medium in a ground-breaking exhibition at York Art Gallery this summer. Exploring gender, sound art and sonic cultures this new exhibition opens at York Art Gallery on July 13th 2019 running until 15 September. The exhibition is on tour from […]
Artist Claudette Johnson has a major solo exhibition open at Modern Art Oxford “I Came To Dance” see https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/event/claudette-johnson/ “Intimate, powerful and sometimes deliberately uncomfortable, Claudette Johnson’s studies of black men and women demand attention and command respect. This show is an overview of one of the most accomplished figurative artists working in Britain today, […]
Lubaina Himid Untitled, acrylic and pencil on paper, 45x64cm Lubaina Himid in conversation with Falke Pisano 7pm 6th June. Preview Thursday 6th June 2019 6.30-8.30pm Hollybush Gardens gallery. Falke Pisano installation opens 7 June runs 7-22 June 2019.
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Artist Lubaina Himid was a guest of Lauren Lauverne this week on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Disks – listen as Lubaina talks about her past, her influences, making art and the impact of winning the Turner Prize in 2017. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0005mfp
Invisible Narratives is an exhibition curated by Lubaina Himid at the Newlyn Art Gallery in Cornwall, featuring work from Lubaina Himid, Magda Stawarska-Beavan and Rebecca Chesney. The exhibition runs from 23rd March – 15th June 2019 “A rural ecologist, an urban drifter and a diasporic optimist examine the invisible layers underneath, the lost spaces on […]
To celebrate International Women’s Day we are opening the archive from noon – 4pm. Everyone is welcome and it’s free! See work by artists Sonia Boyce, Ingrid Pollard, Maud Sulter, Claudette Johnson and Jeanne Moutousamy Ashe, and see our many books including Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara and Toni Morrison. We are also launching Lubaina Himid’s […]
Aaron Hughes / Kang Jungsuck / Ingrid Pollard 15 February – 16 June 2019 BALTIC is presenting the second BALTIC Artists’ Award, a worldwide biennial art award judged solely by artists. Three internationally renowned artist-judges, Lubaina Himid, Michael Rakowitz and Haegue Yang, have each selected an artist who has the opportunity to realise new work […]
The 2017 Turner prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid is the first Guardian artist in residence. After spending four days in the Guardian’s London office she created a work entitled Random Coincidence, which included the artist painting over pages from the paper over a week-long period. Himid’s focus was the paper’s representation of black people and the […]