Old Boat, New Weather

Lubaina Himid (1954 - )

Screenprint

2021

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© Lubaina Himid - Commissioned by the Government Art Collection for The Robson Orr TenTen Award 2018

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    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Home Office, 2 Marsham Street
  • About the artist
    Born in Zanzibar, Lubaina Himid moved to the UK as a child, where she studied Theatre Design at Wimbledon College of Art and Cultural History at the Royal College of Art, London. For over 40 years, she has actively encouraged the promotion and support of the Black Arts Movement, particularly work by women. In the 1980s and ‘90s, she curated a number of important group exhibitions including ‘The Thin Black Line' (ICA, 1985) and 'Unrecorded Truths' (Elbow Room, 1986). Himid currently lives and works in Preston and is Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire. She is the winner of the 2017 Turner Prize. A major monographic exhibition of her work was held at Tate Modern (2021-2022).Other solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Sharjah Art Foundation UAE (2023); Muse?e cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (2022); Tate Britain, London; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands ; and New Museum, New York (all 2019). Her work is held in various key museum collections around the world.
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    Title
    Old Boat, New Weather
    Series Title
    TenTen
    Edition
    7
    Date
    2021
    Medium
    Screenprint
    Dimensions
    height: 103cm; width 58.5cm
    Acquisition
    Commissioned by the Government Art Collection for The Robson Orr TenTen Award 2021, a GAC/Outset Annual Commission
    Provenance
    The artist, from whom commissioned by the Government Art Collection for The Robson Orr TenTen Award 2022, a GAC/Outset Annual Commission, October 2018
    GAC number
    19016/6