Title: Rhodes Rage

Artist: Kazvare Made It

Artwork Description: This work reimagines an archival image of Cecil Rhodes, interrupting and defacing it through drawn interventions that add horns and glasses. The gesture draws on the language of caricature and vandalism, where authority is destabilised through humour, distortion, and ridicule. This visual disruption is complicated by the text in the speech bubble: “I came only to steal and kill and destroy.” Adapted from biblical language, the phrase introduces a moral weight that cuts through the humour, shifting the work from satire into accusation.In the background, a London skyline is layered with text from The Real Rhodesia (1924) by Ethel Tawse Jollie. The archival passage recounts the Rudd Concession and the establishment of the British South Africa Company, framing the extraction of land and mineral wealth through the language of progress and development.Placed together, these elements bring past and present into contact. The ease with which Rhodes moved through and extracted from other lands sits in tension with the conditional nature of Black presence in Britain. It asks who is able to occupy space with entitlement, and who is required to continually negotiate their right to belong.

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

Size: A2