Lubaina Himid Study Day

Focused on artist Lubaina Himid, this Study Day aimed to generate new readings of the artist’s work, invite personal responses and inspire continuing dialogue. It was a collaboration between BAM (Black Artists and Modernism) and Iniva (Institute of International Visual Art). One of the main premises of the BAM project is that the work of black artists is over-determined via sociological readings that leave this body of work outside of art history. The BAM Study Days – this is the third in a series of artist-focused study days and the first in collaboration with Iniva – are opportunities to re-address the balance.

Contributors

Lubaina Himid (Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire)
Jane Beckett (Professor of Contemporary Art, New York University in London)
Evan Ifekoya (artist)
Christine Eyene (art historian, critic and curator and Guild Research Fellow in Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire)
Dorothy Price (Reader in History of Art at the University of Bristol)

Participants

Nick Aikens (Curator, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven)
Yemi Awosile (artist), Pennina Barnett (writer, formerly Senior Lecturer, Department of Art, Goldsmiths), Phoebe Boswell (artist)
Sonia Boyce (Professor of Fine Art at Middlesex University, Chair of Black Art and Design at the University of the Arts London, Principal Investigator on the Black Artists and Modernism project)
Tiffany Boyle (art historian and curator, Mothertongue), Helen Cammock (artist)
Dr Anjalie Dalal-Clayton (art historian and Postdoctoral Researcher on the Black Artists and Modernism project)
Emma Dexter (Director, Visual Arts, British Council)
Dr David Dibosa (Reader and Research Fellow with TrAIN, Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, at the University of the Arts London, and Co-Investigator on the Black Artists and Modernism project)
Hansi Momodu Gordon (curator and writer)
Melanie Keen (Director of Iniva)
Helen Legg (Director, Spike Island, Bristol)
Dr susan pui san lok (artist, Associate Professor in Fine Art, Middlesex University and Co-Investigator on the Black Artists and Modernism project)
Rohini Malik Okon (curator, producer and writer)
Ingrid Pollard (artist)
Griselda Pollock (Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (CENTRECATH) at the University of Leeds)
Jane Rolo (publisher, curator and director of Bookworks)
Katrina Schwarz (Curator, Visual Arts, British Council)
Marlene Smith (artist, curator and UK Regional Manager for the Black Artists and Modernism project)
Rommi Smith (poet and playwright)
Sam Thorne (Director, Nottingham Contemporary)
Helena Vilalta (Afterall)

Videos
Selected presentations and discussions from the Study Day