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- ↑ "Box 9 Contents – Press Releases 1983-89". Archive catalogue. Black Artists Archive Collection, Making Histories Visible at University of Central Lancashire. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
- ↑ Arnold, Dana; Corbett, David Peters (2016). A Companion to British Art: 1600 to the Present. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 305. ISBN 1405136294.
- ↑ "Lubaina Himid MBE". Diaspora-Artists.net. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
