MAKING HISTORIES VISIBLE
Recent Projects
Recent Projects
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CART
Susan Walsh with Lubaina Himid
Galleries 1 & 2 9 March – 23 March 2013
Susan Walsh has transformed an ordinary two wheeled farm cart from its original state into a complex container of memories - it has become a treasure chest of hope for the future. It will be sited outside the DLI and will occasionally make a journey through the busy streets of Durham. In the gallery you will find paintings, collages and installations by artists Susan Walsh and Lubaina Himid which explore the countless decisions we might have to make about the most important objects we would carry with us if we had to flee tomorrow.
Visitors are invited to leave a list of items they would take with them if they had to leave their home.
CART in Durham is a fluid, moving, transient memorial, a participatory celebration of the resilience and adaptability of migrant communities.
Its presence will disrupt; we will not know if we are in yesterday, today or tomorrow.
Its presence will disrupt; we will not know if we are in yesterday, today or tomorrow.
View Cart in Durham Flier
The DLI Museum and
Durham Art Gallery,
Aykley Heads, Durham
DH1 5TU
0191 384 2214
E-mail: dli@durham.gov.uk www.durham.gov.uk/dli
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Thin Line(s) Symposium
Tuesday 28th February 2012 Conway Hall
Speakers included Lubaina Himid, Sutapa Biswas, Ella Spencer Mills, Claudette Johnson and Ingrid Pollard.
Invited Guests included Griselda Pollock, Alan Rice, Celeste Bernier, Chantal Oakes, Marlene Smith, Geoff Quilley,
For more information about the symposium visit
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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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Migrations Tate Britain
31 January – 12 August 2012
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.
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Thin Black Line(s) Tate Britain 2011/2012
Tate Britain - Prof Lubaina Himid MBE and Paul Goodwin
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2 June - 16 September 2012
We Face Forward a season of contemporary art and music from West Africa, celebrated across Manchester’s galleries, museums, music venues and public spaces from 2 June to 16 September as part of London 2012 Festival. It is the first major collaboration between Manchester City Galleries and Whitworth Art Gallery.
The accompanying 128 page publication includes an introductory essay by the curators Maria Balshaw, Bryony Bond, Mary Griffiths and Natasha Howes which sets the historic context of the relationship between Manchester and West Africa and discusses the main themes which run throughout the exhibition. Other essays by Christine Eyene, Lubaina Himid, Koyo Kouoh and Alan Rice explore the wider context for the exhibition including tracing the image of the thread, an engagement with British artists of African descent, a focus on independent contemporary art spaces in West Africa and an exploration of the history of African Atlantic residents in Cottonopolis. Furthermore there are texts on each of the 33 artists in the exhibition with full colour images of their work.
ISBN 978 0901673817
http://shop.manchestergalleries.org/we-face-forward-exhibition-catalogue.html
http://www.cornerhouse.org/bookstore/product/we-face-forward-art-from-west-africa-today
http://cultureshopmanchester.wordpress.com/tag/we-face-forwards/
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11 February – 13 May 2012
Lubaina Himid
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.
http://cottonglobalthreads.com/artist-interview-lubaina-himid/#more-1034
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31 January – 12 August 2012
Migrations Tate Britain
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 included 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.
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Until 15 April 2012
Thin Black Line(s) Prof Lubaina Himid MBE and Paul Goodwin Hanging the show - work in progress images.
Tate Britain
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http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/thin-black-lines
Artists showing work in Thin Black Line(s) Tate Britain 2011/2012
Sutapa Biswas, Sonia Boyce, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan, Maud Sulter
Late at Tate: Talk by Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson and Paul Goodwin on Thin Black Line(s)
http://static.tate.org.uk/1/onlineevents/podcast/mp3/2011_12_02_Flannigan_TBL.mp3
Flannigan_TBL.mp3
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