Lubaina Himid: Making Choices Lecture by Dorothy Price
Wednesday 10 September, 6–7.15pm
Join us for a lecture with Dorothy Price, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at The Courtauld, London, on the artist Lubaina Himid to accompany the current exhibition Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: Another Chance Encounter.
About Dorothy Price
Dr Dorothy Price is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History and Deputy Director and Executive Dean (elect) at The Courtauld Institute of Art and a Fellow of The British Academy. She has published a number of essays on the work of Lubaina Himid, as well as essays on the artists Frank Bowling, Mark Bradford, Veronica Ryan, Chantal Joffe, amongst many others, and two monographs on modern art in Germany, Representing Berlin (2003) and After Dada (2014). Most recently Price has curated a series of groundbreaking exhibitions Making Modernism (Royal Academy of Arts, 2023), Claudette Johnson: Presence (Courtauld Institute of Art, 2023) and Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change (Royal Academy of Arts, 2024). She currently serves on the Advisory Board of Tate Britain and the Exhibitions Committee of the Royal Academy of Arts.
About the exhibition
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.
Initially trained in theatre design, Himid is best known for her innovative approaches to painting and social engagement, playing a pivotal role in the British Black Arts movement since the 1980s. Over the last decade, she has earned international recognition for her figurative canvases, which explore overlooked and invisible aspects of history and contemporary daily life.
At Kettle’s Yard, her new work will centre on what is missing from the telling of life stories, who is left out of narratives, what strategies are used to fill in the gaps and the objects we choose to leave behind as clues.
Access
- The galleries, where exhibitions are shown, and all areas of the Clore Learning Studio (level -1), the Research Space (level 1) and the Ede Room (level 2) are fully accessible.
- We have wheelchair accessible toilets on the lower ground (level -1), ground and first floor (level 1).
- There is a lift giving access to all floors located past the galleries, just beside the Clore Learning Studio on the ground floor.
- Kettle’s Yard welcomes assistance and service dogs in all areas.
- We have large-print versions of the wall text available.
- We can lend visitors small folding seats for taking around exhibitions or using at non-seated events. Please ask a Visitor Assistant for help finding a seat.
