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  1. sis didn't apologise once, Hope River, 2022, Ink and acrylic on unstretched canvas, 160 x 100cm

    sis didn't apologise once, Hope River, 2022, Ink and acrylic on unstretched canvas, 160 x 100cm

    September 8th, Hope River, 2022, Ink on paper, 29.7 x 42cm

    September 8th, Hope River, 2022, Ink on paper, 29.7 x 42cm

    "Oh. . . that was a sad, sad time," said St. Mary Prince, Hope River, 2022, Ink and acrylic on unstretched canvas, 48 x 91.5cm

    "Oh. . . that was a sad, sad time," said St. Mary Prince, Hope River, 2022, Ink and acrylic on unstretched canvas, 48 x 91.5cm

    Baron Sunak, Hope River, 2022, Ink on paper, 29.7 x 42cm

    Baron Sunak, Hope River, 2022, Ink on paper, 29.7 x 42cm

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      sis didn't apologise once, Hope River, 2022, Ink and acrylic on unstretched canvas, 160 x 100cm

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      September 8th, Hope River, 2022, Ink on paper, 29.7 x 42cm

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      "Oh. . . that was a sad, sad time," said St. Mary Prince, Hope River, 2022, Ink and acrylic on unstretched canvas, 48 x 91.5cm

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      Baron Sunak, Hope River, 2022, Ink on paper, 29.7 x 42cm

    sis didn’t apologise once depicts the reality of many Black-British reactions to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and the vexed emotions this engendered. The power and weakness of the silhouette becomes a way of expressing both the life and death of blackness in a colonial hangover, whilst the fractured veve honours River relationship with the Vodou lwa Manman Brigitte, the Queen in consort of life and death.

    The work as a whole is inspired by the Major Arcana tarot card, Judgement, and calls for a resurrection, an awakening, for Black nations to demand that the successors of Elizabeth II apologise and take ownership for the colonialisation, genocide, and slavery they inflicted for over four-hundred-years - because in her seventy-year reign, sis didn’t apologise once!