Steve McQueen & Paul Gilroy: ‘Bounty’ [Book launch]

Join artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen in conversation with writer and critic Paul Gilroy, to discuss his new book, Bounty, published by MACK.

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Wednesday 22 April 
19:00

The London Library
14 St James's Square
London SW1Y 4LG
United Kingdom 

More about Bounty

The book develops McQueen’s exploration of colonial history and its legacy through photographs of Grenada’s flora. Taken on a trip to the island in the summer of 2024, these images reckon with the connections between landscape and historical trauma, studying Grenada’s plant life as permanent markers of beauty in a land ravaged by exploitation. Taking as his touchpoint the late Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott’s elegy to his mother, ‘The Bounty’, McQueen’s project adopts a similarly poetic sensibility, attuned to the resilience of the island’s landscape and the dualities of the word ‘bounty’, which alludes to both the generosity of nature and the sum paid to slave catchers.

Image credit: © Steve McQueen, Bounty 7, 2024. Courtesy the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery.