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Players in vivid versions of 17th century costume

Lubaina Himid's work has long been concerned with black creativity, history and identity and this animated throng represents the Africans who were brought to Europe as slave servants.
Lubaina Himid CBE is a British artist and curator. She is a professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire. Her art focuses on themes of cultural history and reclaiming identities. Himid was born in Zanzibar Sultanate (then a British protectorate, now part of Tanzania) in 1954 and moved to Britain with her mother, a textile designer,following the death of her father when she was just four months old.She attended the Wimbledon College of Art, where she studied Theatre Design, obtaining her B.A. in 1976. She received her Master’s degree in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art in London in 1984.
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