Lubaina Himid
👤 Speaker
309
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This Cultural Life
Lubaina Himid
While it's on the wall, how much strength and joy or horror or fear will this drawing give?
This Cultural Life
Lubaina Himid
Yeah, they thought you're just a bunch of loud people being angry.
This Cultural Life
Lubaina Himid
And my point was always, we're artists.
This Cultural Life
Lubaina Himid
We're not writing books or getting elected to Parliament.
This Cultural Life
Lubaina Himid
And we wanted to be engaged with as artists.
This Cultural Life
Lubaina Himid
I just think that that kind of market and the press just thought that we'd go away.
This Cultural Life
Lubaina Himid
which is kind of peculiar considering how iconic it's become now.
This Cultural Life
Lubaina Himid
We didn't suddenly get jobs in art schools or get taken up by dealers or anything like that.
This Cultural Life
Lubaina Himid
We just kept going, making other shows in other places, community centres and places like that.
This Cultural Life
Lubaina Himid
I was kind of upset that something, such a jewel, was not taken seriously.