Lubaina Himid and Magda Starwarska - by Amy Tobin (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

New publication accompanying the major exhibition by Turner-prize winning artist Lubaina Himid CBE, working with artist Magda Stawarska, at Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge.

Another Chance Encounter celebrates Lubaina Himid's first UK museum exhibition since 2018. Beautifully designed in collaboration with the artist, this fully illustrated book documents three new bodies of paintings and installations created for the exhibition at Kettle's Yard, one made in collaboration with artist and master printmaker Magda Stawarska. Inspired by the unique Kettle's Yard house and collection, Himid's new work illuminates figures and histories often considered marginal. Himid will populate the Kettle's Yard house with paintings in cupboards and drawers, and display a new collection of found and made objects and in the galleries. The publication follows Himid as she brilliantly crafts alternative histories with her distinctive bold colors and characters. The book will include new texts by Amy Tobin, Amelia Groom and Aneta Krzemien in conversation with Magda Starwarska, as well as Himid's own writing.

About the Author

Born in Zanzibar in 1954, Lubaina Himid is a British painter who has dedicated her four-decades-long career to uncovering marginalized and silenced histories, figures, and cultural expressions. She studied Theatre Design at Wimbledon College of Art and went on to receive an MA in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art. Himid currently lives and works in Preston, UK, and is a professor at the University of Central Lancashire. She was the winner of the Turner Prize in 2017. In 2021 Himid presented a major solo exhibition at Tate Modern, London. Current exhibitions include Risquons-Tout, WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels. For nearly two decades, UK-based artist Magda Stawarska has explored the threshold of memory, the sanctioned shape of history, and the active experience of listening. Through sound and performance, moving image, photography, painting, and printmaking, the artist unfolds overlooked and contested narratives of the past through her practice of "inner listening". Stawarska recently had a solo exhibition Drift (2024) at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix during London Gallery Weekend. She participated in a duo show with Lubaina Himid Plaited Time Deep Water, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, (2023).