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Viewing Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: Another Chance Encounter at Kettle’s Yard

The Wick Culture - Lubaina Himid, Favours For Years To Come (2025). Acrylic and charcoal on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Favours For Years To Come (2025). Acrylic and charcoal on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

The Wick Culture - Lubaina Himid, Flying Carpet (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Flying Carpet (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

The Wick Culture - Lubaina Himid, Try Out a Few of Them (2025).
Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Try Out a Few of Them (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

The Wick Culture - Lubaina Himid, Your Charm Offensive (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Your Charm Offensive (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

The Wick Culture - Magda Stawarska and Lubaina Himid, Slightly Bi8er (detail) (2025). Mixed media installation. Courtesy Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York

Above Magda Stawarska and Lubaina Himid, Slightly Bi8er (detail) (2025). Mixed media installation. Courtesy Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York

Above Lubaina Himid, Favours For Years To Come (2025). Acrylic and charcoal on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Flying Carpet (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Try Out a Few of Them (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Lubaina Himid, Your Charm Offensive (2025). Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw

Above Magda Stawarska and Lubaina Himid, Slightly Bi8er (detail) (2025). Mixed media installation. Courtesy Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene NaMali, New York

Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: Another Chance Encounter

Kettle’s Yard
12 July – 2 November 2025

2026 British Pavilion artist Lubaina Himid has opened a new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard Cambridge presenting new paintings, and a special installation made with Himid’s long term collaborator Magda Stawarska, alongside a series of staged ‘interventions’ in the Kettle’s Yard house.

Himid is one of the UK’s best known artists, having emerging from the 1980s Black Arts movement and going on to win the prestigious Turner Prize. Tate Modern held a solo exhibition of Himid in 2022. Her figurative paintings, multimedia installations and sculptures explore the lost, forgotten and invisible human stories of history, stemming from Himid’s own heritage and journey to the UK as a young child from Zanzibar.

At Kettle’s Yard, the new work will centre on what is missing from the telling of life stories, and how the gaps might be filled through material culture, personal objects and ephemera. Meanwhile the installation builds on Himid and Stawarska’s Blue Grid Test (2020), drawing on correspondence between writer and artist Sophie Brzeska and artist Nina Hamnett. The exhibition is free and runs to November.