Amanda Holiday

it is

Year 2023
Medium Charcoal on paper
Dimensions 19.9 x 30 cm
Top pick Selected by Emma Cousin, artist

About the work

This sketch of a breast and wilted flowers is prep for my larger research drawing ‘It Is What It Is’ exploring the relationship between poetry and art.

Date and country of birth

1964, GB

Career Highlights

Amanda Holiday is an artist and poet and founder of Black Sunflowers Poetry Press. Her 1987 work Red Riding Hood was shown in Women in Revolt!, Tate Britain (2023-2024). Her work will be showing in Bloom Song (group show) at The Bindery in October and again in a joint show in January 2025 both with Vivienne Roberts Projects