Lubaina Himid: The artist who skewers white privilege

Lubaina Himid: The artist who skewers white privilege Private collection/ Lubaina Himid The painter's satirical work has always blazed a trail – reclaiming cultural histories and identities. I use humour – the kind of vicious British humour found in caricatures – Lubaina Himid "In the beginning, I was trying to fill in some of those gaps in history, and talk about individuals who had made cultural contributions in Europe," Himid says of her early work, noting that she also looked at stories about Europe's economy. Courtesy the artist/ Hollybush Gardens Himid's Jelly Mould pays tribute to the cultural contribution of the African diaspora On the ship, an untreatable eye disease spread rapidly through the enslaved people and the crew, and the "cargo" was drowned so that the traders could claim insurance. Nottingham Contemporary/ Andy Keate/ Courtesy the artist/ Hollybush Gardens A Fashionable Marriage is among the exhibits at the Tate Modern's retrospective Himid often uses 18th-and-19th-Century caricature as a tool to get her message across.