OLIVIA TWIST

Illustrator. www.yesoliviatwist.com

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What is love?

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The Black British Girlhood project

Sisterhood by Olivia Twist

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Mine… Ours

Olivia Twist

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Mine... Ours

Olivia Twist

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The Missing Chapter showcase at Autograph ABP

My work for this exhibition is called ‘A home away from home’

Emerging Black British Artists

The love and support in the room was immense! 

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Could This Be Love, 1997

©Kerry James Marshall

Acrylic on PVC

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Too Many Blackamoors (2015)

Upcoming exhibition #AutographABP 14/01/16 - 30/01/16

TMC Collective Showcase

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“Her Majesty understanding that several blackamoors have lately been brought into this realm, of which kind of people there are already too many here…her Majesty’s pleasure therefore is that those kind of people should be expelled from the land..” Queen Elizabeth, 1596

The work was inspired by a 19th century Carte-de-visite of Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta. Sarah was the West African adopted goddaughter of Queen Victoria who came to live in England at a young age. The images are based on my own personal experiences as a young black woman, dealing with the macro and micro traumas of racism encountered while travelling around European countries. The format was based around Rosy Martin and Jo Spence’s ’Re-enactment Phototherapy’. Too Many Blackamoors aims to challenge the ‘strong, independent, black female’ narrative that can burden and often entrap black women. With Sarah as my template, the project attempts to illustrate the effects of such perceptual limitations whilst exploring my own internal conflicts of falling short from such mainstream ideals.

The project was supported by Autograph ABP, Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England.

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Hands of the Old Straw Weaver, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. 1970.

Photography by Fritz Henle

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things to look forward to in 2016

new shadow warrior

part 4 anime

new doom

new star wars

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eiiiiiii

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“God is good all the time.....and all the time God is good”

By Olivia Twist

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The Black British Girlhood project

Sisterhood by Olivia Twist

www.yesoliviatwist.com

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I want to fast forward to September 2016 plz.

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i wanna buy myself so many things but i also want to save some money

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Me.