Breaking the rules
Lubaina Himid has waited a long time for a show at London’s Tate Modern. She is now 67, and in 2017 she had the bittersweet honour of being the first Black woman, and the oldest-ever artist (at 63), to win the Turner prize. Bittersweet because “I knew very definitely, in the way that you don’t necessarily if you’re 45, that I had more years behind me than in front. You could think, if you won it at 45, that you might have the same amount of time again to try things, to fail, to try things again … I suppose at 63 I thought: ‘Well, at best, I’ve probably got 20 years of making.’”
We are in Preston, the city where she has lived since the age of 36. She holds a chair at the
