Lubaina Himid

Standard Name: Himid, Lubaina

Connections

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Dedications Maud Sulter
MS 's second poetry volume, Zabat: Poetics of a Family Tree, dedicated to her partner Lubaina Himid , was published to coincide with her photography exhibition of the same name at the Rochdale Gallery , London.
Beckett, Jane, and Deborah Cherry. “Zabat: Poetics of a Family Tree”. Women Artists Slide Library Journal, Vol.
31/32
, Women Artists Slide Library, Jan.–Feb. 1990, p. 37.
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Sulter, Maud. Zabat. Urban Fox, 1989.
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Family and Intimate relationships Maud Sulter
Contributor notes accompanying one of MS 's stories explained the identity of her partner, Lubaina Himid , as a Black woman artist (born in Zanzibar).
Sulter, Maud. “Blackwomansong”. The Pied Piper: Lesbian Feminist Fiction, edited by Anna Livia and Lilian Mohin, Onlywomen Press, 1989, pp. 193-7.
Contributor Notes
Textual Features Maud Sulter
This controversial exhibition, selected by Black artist Lubaina Himid , featured the work of Black women artists particularly concerned with the politics and realities of being Black Women.
Sulter, Maud. “Maud Sulter”. The Thin Black Line, edited by Lubaina Himid, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1985.
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The work of the these 11...
Textual Features Maud Sulter
The exhibition was a large one. The first section, entitled Media Plays, (1984-88), critiques the ways in which Black people are represented in Western media and features enlarged newspaper photographs of Black athlete Ben Johnson
Textual Production Maud Sulter
The forty-page catalogue of the exhibition is listed as a collaboration between MS , Lubaina Himid , and Martin Barlow ; she and Himid have collaborated on other ventures as well.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Maud Sulter
MS wrote and co-wrote many catalogues for art and photography exhibitions. One written with Lubaina Himid entitled New Robes for MaShulan: A Room for MaShulan was for their joint exhibition in 1987. She prepared further...
Textual Production Maud Sulter
Noting that Black women in Britain need their own press, MS urged that they continue to challenge the existing feminist presses, continue to write, and continue to force British society to acknowledge the permanent and...
Textual Production Maud Sulter
Sulter and her partner Lubaina Himid were co-curators and directors of The Elbow Room , an independent gallery in London where the works of artists from around the world were exhibited. The main focus of...
Travel Maud Sulter
MS travelled extensively, seeking out Black women artists in Holland, Scotland, Rome (with Claudette Johnson ), Northern Ireland (with Ingrid Pollard ), and the Gambia. She also visited Venice, the Schomberg Museum

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Sulter, Maud. “Maud Sulter”. The Thin Black Line, edited by Lubaina Himid, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1985.