Forthcoming
Current projects
Amanda will be showing recent work in group show Bloom Song at The Bindery from Oct 3rd - 7th November this year. Details to follow soon.
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This summer, Amanda worked on a 2nd children's arts and wellbeing project for Arts for Health Milton Keynes in collaboration with The Wisdom Principle and the African Diaspora Foundatio in Conniburrow, MK. Below is the communal, silhouette collage work produced in the first week.
This summer, Amanda was engaged as one of four RUPT Associates by CADA (Creative Ageing, Development & Agency) with a mission to change thinking about ageing and creativity! Keep an eye on their website for info on recent and future events..
In March and April, Amanda Holiday was engaged as artist on Drawing Acts VII at Drawing Room London, exploring ideas from the feminist drawing exhibition with Coin Street Over 50s group through drawing and poetry. The resulting zine publication was launched on March 20th.
One of Amanda's drawings was auctioned in Drawing Room's Drawing Biennal 2024 - an online auction of around 300 works on paper in support of their programme.
Women in Revolt!
at Tate Britain
Amanda Holiday's 1987 drawing Red Riding Hood was included in 'Women In Revolt! - Art Activism and the Women's movement in the UK 1970-1990' - a major survey of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK showing at Tate Britain from 8th November 2023 - 7th April 2024.
The last few remaining (signed) giclee prints of this artwork can be purchased in the store.
Blue Bloodlines
Earthbound Poetry Series: Amanda Holiday (Vol. 3, No. 11)
This limited edition set of 5 poems + artwork cover from earthbound press is now available here
In 2022 Amanda Holiday worked with Harts Lane Studios on their ‘Come Dine in Blue’ community arts project. She facilitated art and poetry workshops with members of Be Seen Be Heard – collective of young black creatives in Lewisham.
As part of the project, Holiday was commissioned to write a hybrid text 'Tracing Blue Blood Lines’ for the accompanying publication. 'Tracing Blue Blood Lines' uses poetry, autobiography and reportage to map migration and blue blood lineage. Below is an excerpt. You can read the full text here (scroll down)
‘Under The Bridge’ was a public art project of Southwark Council and Black Blossoms School of Art and Culture in 2022. Amanda Holiday worked alongside photographer Bernice Mulenga with Year 4 pupils at Kender Primary School to facilitate creative responses to Southwark's food action plan. Children created food poems, took photographs and created collages which were collated for display on billboards ‘under the bridge’ on the Old Kent Road.
As part of the project, Black Blossoms also commissioned both artists to create a piece of new work. Holiday’s poem ‘The Day it Rained Peas’ was displayed on one of the billboards.
Under The Bridge
