Himid was born 1954 in Zanzibar and lives in the present day in Preston, UK. Her work, sculptures and installations are an invite to think about marginalised figures, communities and diasporic cultures, to develop the histories that body our worldview, and finally to impact change. From the Eighties, Lubaina has been each artist and organiser, a prolific collaborator, and a vital voice in establishing a platform for Black artists and ladies artists within the UK and past.
Partaking straight with historic and modern injustice and structural racism, whereas relating private and intimate experiences and emotions, and reinterpreting and reimagining Western artwork historical past, her work is rigorously vital and but poetic, sensuous, humorous and sometimes joyous.
She talks concerning the early affect of Stanley Spencer and Bridget Riley, the inexhaustible affect of William Hogarth, her curatorial work of the mid-Eighties and her admiration for her peer within the Black British Arts motion Claudette Johnson.
She additionally displays on the affect of writers together with Audre Lorde and Essex Hemphill. Plus, she provides perception into her life within the studio and solutions our normal questions, together with the last word: what’s artwork for?
Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: One other Probability Encounter, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 12 July-2 NovemberConnecting Skinny Black Traces, Institute of Up to date Arts, London, 24 June-7 September. Lubaina Himid, British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 9 Might-22 November 2026
This podcast is sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the humanities and tradition platform. Bloomberg Connects affords entry to an unlimited vary of worldwide cultural organisations by a single click on, with new guides being added recurrently. They embody a number of museums and galleries within the UK which have had solo shows of Lubaina Himid’s work, together with Tate, the Holburne Museum in Bathtub, the Chisenhale Gallery in London and Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, the place Lubaina has a present with Magda Stawarska in the summertime of 2025. The information to Kettle’s Yard options audio content material concerning the former dwelling of Jim and Helen Ede the place, between 1957 and 1973, they gathered a various assortment of artwork, ceramics, textiles and furnishings—what’s now a home museum. It’s also possible to discover the continuing present in Kettle’s Yard’s exhibition galleries, known as Here’s a Gale Warning: Artwork, Disaster and Survival. Take heed to artists together with Tomashi Jackson, Candace Hill-Montgomery and Anne Tallentire speak about their works within the present.
