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Carpet 1992 is a large painting by the British artist Lubaina Himid that features overlapping blocks of bright colour rendered in thick strokes of acrylic paint. The background consists of patches painted in varying shades of blue, and is overlaid with square and rectangular forms in green, yellow, pink, red and orange. On top of a prominent red block in the left part of the composition is a black S-shaped form, and on top of an orange rectangular block in the right of the picture is painted a curving, L-shaped form in white and cream. The artist has painted small orange lines along the two shorter sides of this orange block, giving it a fringe-like edge so that it resembles a carpet, as is referred to in the work’s title.