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11 February – 13 May

COTTON: Global Threads

Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester

Visit the COTTON: Global Threads website...

http://cottonglobalthreads.com/artist/lubaina-himid/

Late winter and spring sees all the ground floor galleries at the Whitworth combining to tell a compelling story about the production, consumption and global trade in cotton. With exhibits ranging in date from the late Middle Ages to the present day, the exhibition takes in Lancashire and South Asia, the Americas and Africa and is the region's flagship exhibition outcome of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme Stories of the World.

Cotton was the world's first global commodity. At the heart of the exhibition are displays of fashion and textiles that examine India’s extensive global trade networks in cotton centuries before production shifted to Northern Europe, and the impact that cotton had on Western fashion, providing the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution. The displays also take a provocative look at cotton's 'dirty secrets' - at its human and environmental impact - and at the pivotal political and economic role it has played in establishing national independence from colonial rule.

The fashion and textile displays engage in dialogue with the work of seven contemporary artists working in a range of disciplines whose work addresses one or more of the exhibition themes. They include Yinka Shonibare MBE, Lubaina Himid, Chicago-based Anne Wilson, Malian artists Abdoulaye Konaté and Aboubakar Fofana, and Grace Ndiritu, while Liz Rideal's work illuminates the exterior of the building throughout the hours of darkness.

The exhibition also showcases the outcomes of a three-year programme of work with young people, taking the form of an interactive space for younger visitors.

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31 Jan - 12 Aug

Migrations Tate Britain 31 January – 12 August 2012

Detail From: Between The Two My Heart Is Balanced - Lubaina Himid

This exhibition 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 Dutch landscape and still-life painters who came to Britain in search of new patrons, through moments of political and religious unrest, to Britain’s current position within the global landscape, the exhibition will reveal how British art has been fundamentally shaped by successive waves of migration. Cutting a swathe through 500 years of history, and tracing not only the movement of artists but also the circulation of visual languages and ideas, this exhibition will include works by artists from Lely, Kneller, Kauffman to Sargent, Epstein, Mondrian, Bomberg, Bowling and the Black Audio Film Collective as well as recent work by contemporary artists.

Guardian Review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/26/tate-britain-migrations-art-identity

Tate Britain Migrations in pictures.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jan/26/migrations-tate-britain-in-pictures#/?picture=385004299&index=2

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Until 18 March 2012

Thin Black Line(s) Prof Lubaina Himid MBE and Paul Goodwin

Hanging the show - work in progress images.

Tate Britain

Collection Displays | British Art 1500 - 2011 | Thin Black Line(s

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=1&roomid=7237

Thin Black Line(s)

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 The Thin Black Line at the Institute for Contemporary Arts (1985) marked the arrival on the British art scene of a radical generation of young Black and Asian women artists. They challenged their collective invisibility in the art world and engaged with the social, cultural, political and aesthetic issues of the time.

This display features a selection of key works by some of these artists. At their core is a conceptual reframing of the image of black and Asian women themselves. Drawing on multiple artistic languages and media, these works repositioned the black female presence from the margins to the centre of debates about representation and art making.

Most of the works on display have been lent by the Arts Council and from artists private collections. They and local museums were more proactive at the time than national museums such as Tate in collecting these works.

The participants in the three exhibitions were: Brenda Agard, Sutapa Biswas, Sonia Boyce, Chila Burman, Jean Campbell, Jennifer Comrie, Margaret Cooper, Elizabeth Eugene, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Mumtaz Karimjee, Cherry Lawrence, Leslee Wills, Houria Niati, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan, Marlene Smith, Maud Sulter and Andrea Telman.

This display has been devised by artist Lubaina Himid MBE, Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire, with curator Paul Goodwin.

On display until 18 March 2012, admission is free.

BP British Art Displays 1500-2011

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=1&roomid=7237

Artists showing work in Thin Black Line(s) Tate Britain 2011/2012

Sutapa Biswas, Sonia Boyce, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan

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28 April - 6 August 2011

HUNTER GATHERER
Artists respond to the Artemis Collection

Amelia Crouch / Lubaina Himid and Susan Walsh / Dinu Li / Rhiannon Silver / Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson / Lisa Stansbie / Nathan Walker

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 of sculptures. Tiny curious onlookers and hungry historians gather to view this memorial landscape which is dedicated to the invisible labour of the women who used them. The artists are both concerned with the power of everyday objects and the making visible of lost lives.

Rub a Tub Senior - Invisible Wash Project Space Leeds 2011

28 April - 6 August 2011
(Open Bank Holiday weekend 29 and 30 April)

For more information on Hunter Gatherer click on links below

http://www.projectspaceleeds.org.uk/default.aspx

http://huntergathererpsl.tumblr.com/

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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 hear who would win the fourth Northern Art Prize of £16,500. Mark Lawson announced the winner as Haroon Mirza. David Jacques, Lubaina Himid & Alec Finlay each received £1500 Lubaina Himid won the People’s Choice Award

Exhibition Runs until 6 Feb 2011

For further info visit

http://www.northernartprize.org.uk/

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Nov 2010 - Jan 2011

Northern Art Prize 2010

Lubaina Himid has been shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize.

The shortlist was chosen from an initial field of 22 artists, each chosen via another feature of the NAP, selection through curators of 11 northern galleries who can put forward two artists each.

The Private View for the four shortlisted artists was on 25th Nov at Leeds Art Gallery.

The shortlist judges, who will reconvene in January 2011 to pick the winner, are art collector Richard Greer, artist Susan Hiller, journalist Mark

Lawson and director of visual arts for the British Council Andrea Rose, with discussions chaired by Tanja Pirsig-Marshall, curator of exhibitions at

Leeds Art Gallery.

For more information on the work of the four artists and to watch the videos visit:

http://www.northernartprize.org.uk/

http://www.skyarts.co.uk/video/video-sky-arts-at-northern-art-prize/

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January 2011

Tailor, Singer, Striker, Dandy: New work by Lubaina Himid

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 reinterpreted these in large cut-out figures, painted to express the conflicts and the convergencies in contemporary and historic male identity.

Lubaina Himid’s exhibition is part of London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme Stories of the World.

Tailor Singer Striker Dandy a museum intervention at Platt Hall (Costume Museum )

a collaborative project in partnership with Manchester Museums Service.

http://www.manchestergalleries.org.uk/our-other-venues/platt-hall-gallery-of-costume/exhibition-programme/

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June 2010

Lubaina Himid MBE

Professor Lubaina Himid has been awarded an MBE in the Queens Birthday Honours 2010 announced on the 12th June.

Professor Himid has been recognised for her services to Black Women’s Art. As an artist, writer and curator she has participated at an international level in exhibitions, conferences, books and films on the visual art of the Black Diaspora since the early 1980’s.

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Lubaina Himid

lubaina@lubainahimid.info