About the Artwork
Lubaina Himid has often depicted lemons in her paintings. For Himid, lemons can represent many things: a natural shock of colour, a beautiful fruit with a bitter taste, something to trade or bargain with.
For Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska’s exhibition at Kettle’s Yard, Another Chance Encounter, a new collaborative installation is titled ‘Slightly Bitter’. A vivid ‘lemon yellow’ is a strong visual presence in the work.
The lemon is also significant for Kettle’s Yard. Jim Ede, who created Kettle’s Yard with his wife Helen, placed a single fresh lemon every week or so on a grey pewter plate in the Kettle’s Yard house: a tradition which continues to this day. For Ede, the lemon was a means of drawing attention to the yellows to be found in paintings displayed nearby, and perhaps to encourage visitors to think about how art is in conversation with the everyday world.
Each of the works in the edition of 50 is unique. Himid first painted directly onto each sheet of paper in vibrant colours and patterns typical of her work. This was followed by hand printing an image of a lemon over the top of each painting, using a silkscreen. The print of each lemon was made in collaboration with master printer, Magda Stawarska.
Edition of 50
Numbered and dated.
Signed in pencil by Lubaina Himid
Acrylic paint and acrylic silkscreen print on Somerset tub paper.
32.8 x 27.8cm (print dimensions)
36 cm x 41cm x 2.5cm (frame dimensions)
£1200 framed
Approved by the artist, the bespoke frame is with a limed finish on solid oak with a white stain and low reflection glass. The mounting is to conservation standard.
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About Lubaina Himid
Lubaina Himid, CBE, (born Zanzibar 1954) lives and works in Preston, England. A two-person exhibition with Magda Stawarska is currently on view at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean through August 24. In 2026, she will represent the United Kingdom at the 61st Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition of new work in the British Pavilion. Her major solo exhibition at Kettle’s Yard: Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: ‘Another Chance Encounter’ opens on 12 July and runs to 2 November 2025.
Himid received the Turner Prize in 2017 and was the subject of a major survey at Tate Modern in 2021–22. Other recent solo and two-person exhibitions include MUDAM Luxembourg (through August 24, 2025); FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2024–25); Greene Naftali, New York (2024); The Contemporary Austin (2024); Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE (2023–24); Glyndebourne Opera Festival, East Sussex, UK (2023); Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (2022); Tate Britain, London (2019); Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands (2019); CAPC Bordeaux, France (2019); New Museum, New York (2019); Spike Island, Bristol, UK (2017); and Modern Art Oxford (2017).
Her work is in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; National Museums, Liverpool; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Royal Academy, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate, London; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, among others.
Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: Another Chance Encounter
This new exhibition by one of the UK’s most renowned and celebrated contemporary artists will present new paintings, a special installation made in collaboration with Magda Stawarska and ‘interventions’ in the Kettle’s Yard house.
Limited Editions at Kettle's Yard
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