WANDERING AROUND IN EMPTY GALLERIES
When taking in an exhibition in London, or anywhere outside of Paris for that matter, I tend to go to what has been programmed and « drink » that in. No more. This time, after a little lunch we decided to look at the permanent collection at the Tate. As we found ourselves alone in most of the different galleries, it was a pleasure to take photos and discover as always many new artists - Brits - that I don’t seem to have come across. Most of the artists I have shared with you already, but some a new too. Carpet - 1992 Lubaina Himid , born in 1954 in central Africa, is a contemporary African artist and Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire. She was one of the first artists involved in the Black Art movement in the 1980s and continues to create activist art which is shown in galleries in Britain, as well as worldwide. That worldwide always troubles me - so why haven’t I come across her work in France? What I ...