Amanda Holiday

In 2019 Holiday completed the Creative Writing (Poetry) course at the University of East Anglia. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and in the same year founded Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, the UK's first crowdfunded poetry press. As of 2021, she is a research student at the School of Humanities and Social Science at Brighton University.

From 2001 to 2010 Holiday lived in Cape Town, writing and directing several educational television series.

She directed the short video Employing the Image (1989) as part of the Arts Council Black Arts Video Project featuring the work of contemporary black visual artists Sonia Boyce, Simone Alexander, Zarina Bhimji, Keith Piper and Allan deSouza. Holiday directed shorts including Umbrage funded by Arts Council/C4, Miss Queencake as part of BFI New Directors and Manao Tupapau funded by Arts Council/BBC. Miss Queencake was shown at the Torino Film Festival. It tells the story of a mixed-race teenager, Bira, from the North of England married off to a white boatman. Embarking on her honeymoon, Bira escapes the racism of her everyday life by constructing a fantasy world in which she is a princess. Manao Tupapau looked at the experience of Merahi metua no Tehamana modelling for Paul Gauguin in Tahiti.

Holiday was active in the second wave of the Black British art movement, undertaking large-scale figurative mixed-media drawings. The Hum of History, in charcoal and chalk, was "a cyclic story about hope in the 80s". Her work was exhibited in major 1980s black British art exhibitions including 'Creation for Liberation', 'Some of us are Brave', 'Black Art: Plotting the Course' and 'Black Perspectives'.

Amanda Bintu Holiday (born 1964) is a Sierra Leonean-British artist, filmmaker and poet.

Amanda Holiday was born in 1964 in Sierra Leone. Aged five she emigrated to the United Kingdom, and grew up in Wigan. She completed the foundation art course at Jacob Kramer College alongside Clio Barnard and Damien Hirst and went on to study fine art at Wimbledon School of Art graduating in 1987.