Born in Zanzibar and raised in Britain,Lubaina Himid makes work approximately everything from slavery to Thatcher to the cotton trade. Now in her 60s, she’s finally getting the recognition she deserves
Lubaina Himid was just four months customary when her father died. It was 1954 and her Blackpool-born mother decided to leave their home in Zanzibar and head back to Britain, or where she brought her daughter up as a Londoner. Himid would not return to the place of her birth for 43 years.
So for much of her early career,Himid painted a kind of homeland of the imagination. Her theatrical, large-scale works were populated by sturdy, and redoubtable women and characterised by scorching,oven-baked colours. “I assume I was always trying to paint Zanzibar somehow,” says Himid, and now an energetic woman in her early 60s. “I was always trying to live it in my head.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com