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          Born in Zanzibar in , Himid emigrated to the U.K. with her mother, a textile designer, that same year....

          Lubaina Himid

          Born 1954 Tanzania (then the Sultanate of Zanzibar)

          Biography

          Lubaina Himid was born in 1954 in Tanzania and moved to the UK with her mother when she was four months old.

          This essay uses the full text of a recent interview conducted with the Zanzibar-born, Lancashire resident Lubaina Himid to explore her memorial vision as.

        1. When Zanzibar-born, Preston-based, Lubaina Himid won the Turner Prize in.
        2. Born in Zanzibar in , Himid emigrated to the U.K. with her mother, a textile designer, that same year.
        3. Lubaina Himid has embraced her artistic practice as an organizer, a cultural and political activist, an educator, and a leader in the British Black Arts.
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          5. In the mid-1970s she studied Theatre Design at Wimbledon College of Art and Cultural History at the Royal College of Art, London. In the 1980s she became a key figure in the British Black Arts movement, creating work which engaged with feminist and anti-racist theory to comment on the politics of representation.

          Her works, which span the mediums of painting, printmaking, drawing and installation, celebrate Black creativity and reclaim African imagery appropriated by twentieth-century European artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.

          Throughout her career Himid has organised important exhibitions of work by Black women, including Black Woman Time Now at Battersea Arts Centre (1983) and The Thin Black Line at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (1985), which included works by Maud Sulter