
Artist and poet Amanda Holiday was born in Sierra Leone and came to live in the north of England at the age of 5. She studied Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art in the 1980s and exhibited her artwork nationally before moving into film and scriptwriting. Between 2001-10 she lived in Cape Town and worked in educational television.
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Holiday’s chapbook The Art Poems was published in 2018 and other writing has appeared in journals internationally. In 2020, she founded poetry press Black Sunflowers focussed on publishing the work of outstanding women and black poets from around the world.
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Holiday was awarded the Peut Guard Artist Award for 2024. Most recently her 1987 artwork Red Riding Hood was exhibited in Women in Revolt! which tours to Whitworth, Manchester in March 2025. Her artwork was included in recent group show Bloom Song and in duo exhibition Gloam both with Vivienne Roberts Projects.
She is completing a PhD in Poetry, Race and Art at the University of Brighton and currently undertaking a research fellowship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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