This is one of the School Prints, commissioned and published by the Hepworth Wakefield. L Launched in 2018, School Prints is an ambitious five-year project to engage every primary school child in Wakefield District with contemporary art. Each year, the participating schools are gifted a set of limited-edition prints by leading contemporary artists for display in school and are supported with an in-depth engagement programme led by local artists to encourage creativity across the curriculum. Nicola Freeman, Director of Engagement & Learning at The Hepworth Wakefield, said: “The prominence and urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 has brought into sharp focus the lack of diversity across the arts and museum sector”, and the artists were selected to increase diversity of representation. The Hepworth Wakefield scheme was inspired by the original School Prints initiative, a ground-breaking project set up in the 1940s whereby artists, including Henri Matisse, Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso, were commissioned to create prints specifically for schools to allow children to have direct access to high-quality art.

Lubaina Himid CBE (born 1954) is a British artist and curator. Her art focuses on themes of cultural history and reclaiming identities. Himid, who won the Turner Prize in 2017, was one of the first artists involved in the UK's Black Art movement in the 1980s. About this print she has said: ‘Spring 2020 arrived, and all of us were locked in for most of the time. Luckily the weather was good, the sun shone almost every day. We went out, on our own, and walked near sparkling rivers and in among elegant trees, along empty streets and in nearby parks. We encountered people on these outings who we didn’t know but we smiled and greeted them politely. We missed meeting our friends and going out in groups to buy things in familiar shops. Some people felt quite lonely, others didn’t mind too much, but luckily the birdsong held us together.’