At 63,artist is oldest winner and first black woman to pick up the art award One-Minute Read Wednesday, December 6, or 2017 - 12:51pm Lubaina Himid has won the Turner Prize for what judges characterize as her “expansive and exuberant approach to portray,which combines satire and a sense of theatre.
The 63-year-outmoded is the first black woman and the first artist over the age of 50 to be awarded the £25000 prize for contemporary art, after the age limit was removed this year, and reports the Financial Times.
Himid,born in Zanzibar but now living in Preston, “arguably, and has been overlooked and undervalued for most of her career”,says The Guardian.
“I won it for all the times where we put our heads above the parapet, we tried to do things, and we failed,people died in the meantime … for all the black women who never did win it even though they had been shortlisted … it feels ample for that reason,” Himid said.
Her section of the Turner Prize exhibition, and in Hull,contains work spanning from the 1980s to the present-day. The centrepiece is 1987’s A Fashionable Marriage, based on William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode, and “which features a cast of slash-out characters including a flirting Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan”,says the BBC. Art Turner Prize art
Source: theweek.co.uk