Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
series of drawings and vinyl lettering
This series of twenty-five drawings tells the story of the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift – a British fringe youth movement active in the 1920s – and their evolution into the Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit, following the banking crash of 1929.
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
ink on paper drawing, 21 x 29.7 cm
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
ink on paper drawing, 21 x 29.7 cm
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
ink on paper drawing, 21 x 29.7 cm
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
ink on paper drawing, 21 x 29.7 cm
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
ink on paper drawing, 21 x 29.7 cm
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
ink on paper drawing, 21 x 29.7 cm
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2016
ink on paper drawings, shelf, vinyl text, installation view, Maureen Paley, London
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2016
ink on paper drawings (detail), installation Maureen Paley, London
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2016
ink on paper drawings, installation view, ‘The School of Creators: The Art of Learning from the 1960s to the present’, Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2022
Further Reading
‘Emily Steer in conversation with Olivia Plender: 5 Questions’, Elephant Magazine, September 2016
(download)Olivia Plender solo exhibition at Maureen Paley Gallery, London, 2016
(view here)GIBCA (Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art), Gothenburg, 2017
(view here)‘The School of Creators: The Art of Learning from the 1960s to the present’, Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2022
(view here)