Title: Refuge

Artist: Kazvare Made It

Artwork Description: This work juxtaposes intimacy and hostility to explore the fragile conditions of safety within Black British life.In the foreground, an image of Iyanla Vanzant embracing a woman, drawn from a widely circulated meme, carries the words “You are safe here.” The gesture signals care, affirmation, and protection, reflecting how safety is often actively created within Black communities rather than assumed.The background is a photograph created by the artist that evokes signage reading “No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish.” This deliberate recreation references systemic exclusion, racial hostility, and the ongoing legacies of marginalisation, linking past and present through the artist’s lens. It sets historical language of exclusion against contemporary visual space.The work ultimately explores how Black people construct spaces of emotional and physical safety within environments that remain uneven and often unsafe.

Medium: Printed as giclée prints on 100% cotton rag paper.

Size: A2