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  1. "Can you make your artwork more, um.... black?" (detail), Hope River, 2023, diptych, Pencil, pastel, pen, and print on paper, 59.4 x 21cm

    "Can you make your artwork more, um.... black?" (detail), Hope River, 2023, diptych, Pencil, pastel, pen, and print on paper, 59.4 x 21cm

    "Can you make your artwork more, um.... black?" (detail), Hope River, 2023, diptych, Pencil, pastel, pen, and print on paper, 59.4 x 21cm

    "Can you make your artwork more, um.... black?" (detail), Hope River, 2023, diptych, Pencil, pastel, pen, and print on paper, 59.4 x 21cm

    Racism is as British as a Cup of Tea, Fine China, Tea Leaves, Sugar and All, Hope River, 2023, Print, pencil, and acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21cm

    Racism is as British as a Cup of Tea, Fine China, Tea Leaves, Sugar and All, Hope River, 2023, Print, pencil, and acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21cm

    Happily Fuckin' Mourning, Hope River, 2023, Print, pencil, and acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21cm

    Happily Fuckin' Mourning, Hope River, 2023, Print, pencil, and acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21cm

    We Are the Wholeness of the Black Hole, Hope River, 2023, Print, pencil, and acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21cm

    We Are the Wholeness of the Black Hole, Hope River, 2023, Print, pencil, and acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21cm

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      "Can you make your artwork more, um.... black?" (detail), Hope River, 2023, diptych, Pencil, pastel, pen, and print on paper, 59.4 x 21cm

    • 2

      "Can you make your artwork more, um.... black?" (detail), Hope River, 2023, diptych, Pencil, pastel, pen, and print on paper, 59.4 x 21cm

    • 3

      Racism is as British as a Cup of Tea, Fine China, Tea Leaves, Sugar and All, Hope River, 2023, Print, pencil, and acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21cm

    • 4

      Happily Fuckin' Mourning, Hope River, 2023, Print, pencil, and acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21cm

    • 5

      We Are the Wholeness of the Black Hole, Hope River, 2023, Print, pencil, and acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 21cm

    Novelty-Negress

    /ˈnɒvlti/ˈniːɡrɪs,ˈniːɡrɛs/

    1. The ornamental quality of being the only black woman or girl in a white-dominated space.

    Novelty-Negress is a social critique on being a black body in a white space. Revealing how the white gaze removes the humanity of black people, by turning them into objects of curiosity, fascination, or shock for personal and/or public entertainment. These works not only narrate instances in which River has been treated as a new or unusual experience, as a novelty, in a plethora of Eurocentric environments. They also open discourse on how Black artists react to being treated as novelties - as objectified subliminal tokens - in contemporary art today.