Amanda Holiday was born in Sierra Leone on 28 March 1964 and moved to England aged five, where she was brought up in Wigan. A graduate from Wimbledon School of Art (1987), Holiday is best known for her large-scale, figurative, mixed-media drawings, exemplified by her series 'The Hum of History', a cyclical story about aspirations in the 1980s, realised in charcoal and chalk. An active member within the Black Arts Movement in the 1980s, Holiday has participated in major exhibitions championing the work of diaspora artists.

Listen to her story here or read the full biography on the BURU database: https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/amanda-holiday