![](https://images.prismic.io/oliviaplender/bf5410f3-465f-486b-bd55-70bc942816b4_01oliviaplender_kibbokiftkindred.jpg?ixlib=gatsbyFP&fit=max&auto=compress%2Cformat&q=100&w=8192&fm=webp)
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
ink on paper drawing, 21 x 29.7 cm
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.
![](https://images.prismic.io/oliviaplender/bb9b9bb1-714f-4863-953c-6587fb2124e5_02oliviaplender_kibbokiftkindred.jpg?ixlib=gatsbyFP&fit=max&auto=compress%2Cformat&q=100&w=8192&fm=webp)
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
ink on paper drawing, 21 x 29.7 cm
![](https://images.prismic.io/oliviaplender/5e2a0472-276f-40e7-93f1-b42c4d6a89c7_03oliviaplender_kibbokiftkindred.jpg?ixlib=gatsbyFP&fit=max&auto=compress%2Cformat&q=100&w=8192&fm=webp)
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
ink on paper drawing, 21 x 29.7 cm
![](https://images.prismic.io/oliviaplender/b683bfde-0251-41d1-8bf5-4d407d7e74b7_09oliviaplender_kibbokift_altermoderntatetriennial.jpg?ixlib=gatsbyFP&fit=max&auto=compress%2Cformat&q=100&w=8192&fm=webp)
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
ink on paper drawing, 21 x 29.7 cm
![](https://images.prismic.io/oliviaplender/ee0b3f8b-d189-4ce4-bb81-3500fbdcd203_04oliviaplender_kibbokiftkindred.jpg?ixlib=gatsbyFP&fit=max&auto=compress%2Cformat&q=100&w=8192&fm=webp)
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
ink on paper drawing, 21 x 29.7 cm
![](https://images.prismic.io/oliviaplender/1a669b85-f304-4bd1-98b3-23741078243c_73oliviaplender_kibbokiftkindred_socialcredit.jpg?ixlib=gatsbyFP&fit=max&auto=compress%2Cformat&q=100&w=8192&fm=webp)
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
ink on paper drawing, 21 x 29.7 cm
![](https://images.prismic.io/oliviaplender/c1f56d3f-4f14-4e90-ba3d-0e4564124d59_07oliviaplender_maureenpaleygallery_kibbokiftkindred.jpg?ixlib=gatsbyFP&fit=max&auto=compress%2Cformat&q=100&w=8192&fm=webp)
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2008
ink on paper drawing, 21 x 29.7 cm
![](https://images.prismic.io/oliviaplender/6e0da5e3-af73-4570-96e1-981d5e948802_05oliviaplender_maureenpaleygallery_kibbokiftkindred.jpg?ixlib=gatsbyFP&fit=max&auto=compress%2Cformat&q=100&w=8192&fm=webp)
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2016
ink on paper drawings, shelf, vinyl text, installation view, Maureen Paley, London
![](https://images.prismic.io/oliviaplender/e05b99fe-2549-4851-97e4-ef8b19788b4b_06oliviaplender_maureenpaleygallery_kibbokiftkindred.jpg?ixlib=gatsbyFP&fit=max&auto=compress%2Cformat&q=100&w=8192&fm=webp)
Bring Back Robin Hood, 2016
ink on paper drawings (detail), installation Maureen Paley, London
![](https://images.prismic.io/oliviaplender/22d2b94c-7470-4a2e-aff2-6247cdcdb9f5_kibbokift_schoolofcreators_pompidou_metz_oliviaplender.jpg?ixlib=gatsbyFP&fit=max&auto=compress%2Cformat&q=100&w=8192&fm=webp)
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)