For British artist Hurvin Anderson, whose career-defining solo show opens at Tate Britain this month, painting is, and has always been, a medium for stories about home, memory and politics. Vanessa Peterson meets him in his studio.

The home and studio of British artist Hurvin Anderson is an hour-long train ride from London, one that passes the flat landscapes of Cambridgeshire to a market town called Huntingdon. After a winding car journey along narrow country lanes, you reach Anderson's home, a renovated 1930s modernist building, with a separate studio set back on acres of land.

I'm meeting Anderson ahead of his first major Tate survey, opening at Tate Britain in March. This isn’t Anderson’s first showing in a Tate exhibition. His work was included in the landmark Life Between Islands group show in 2021, which explored the cultural and political links between Britain and the Caribbean, but this upcoming solo show will be his largest to date, including over 80 works spanning the entire breadth of his career, from his early days as an art student in the 1990s to newly produced works.