Mother Tongue regularly produce texts alongside our projects, and undertake writing commissions. Our publications to date are held in the Stuart Hall Library and DOCVA:Milan; they are listed on the ‘Projects’ page and wherever possible, a pdf has been made available for reading/download.

Recent Texts include:

‘Volumetric Space and Donald Locke: Artistic Attempts to Understand a Context',’ Presented as part of the Association for Art History’s Annual Conference 2021 [Read Here]. As part of the panel ‘The Plantation Complex’ organized by Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson and Dr Emilia Terracciano.

‘A Visual Lineage in Drapery and Hues: New Work from Sekai Machache’ for ‘Body of Land,’ publication and exhibition curated by Fòcas Scotland (Katherine Parhar and Arpita Shah) in partnership with Street Level Photoworks and Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2021.

Published writing includes:

‘Delineate: flax, pulp and rugs’ for ‘Remnants’ produced by Panel and Voices of Experience, for Civic Room, supported by Historic Environment Scotland, available here - please note physical launch event postponed due to Covid-19.

On the Wider and Historical Contexts Around the Withdrawal of Transmission’s RFO Status, for Art Review Glasgow March 2018, available here.

Spectres of the Deep, review of John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea at Talbot Rice Gallery, 21 October 2017 - 27 January 2018 for MAP Magazine, available here.

Sister Sciences, as part of ‘We Have Met Before,’ National Gallery of Jamaica with the British Council Caribbean. Commissioned exhibition catalogue text published by the National Gallery of Jamaica and British Council Caribbean, responding to the work of Graham Fagen, Ingrid Pollard, Leasho Johson and Joscelyn Gardner, available here.

Caribbean Connections in Scotland, essay on the work of three seminal Afro-Caribbean artists working,
studying and exhibiting in Scotland, primarily in the 1960s, published with MAP magazine, available here.

Style Lines , review of the publication The Inventors of Tradition II, produced by Atelier E.B. and Panel, published by Koenig Books, for MAP magazine, available here.

Podcasts include:

NLS Kingston IN podcast series Episode 29 ‘British Black Arts Movement’ with Alberta Whittle, Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Janice Cheddie, Paul Goodwin, Sumeshwar Sharma and Tiffany Boyle, available here.

Writing on Mother Tongue projects includes:

Ranjana Thapalyal, ‘Expanding the Curriculum,’ in Art Monthly, Issue 432, Dec-Jan 19-20, available here.

Susannah Thompson, ‘Glasgow International, in Burlington Contemporary, Vol. 160, July 2018, available here.

Maria Howard, ‘GI Reviews and Responses,’ in MAP magazine, #44 May 2018, available here.

Laura Davidson, ‘Glasgow International 2018: Nadia Myre: Code-Switching and Other Works; Georgia Horgan, Saturday – an audio guide,’ in a-n, May 2018, available here.

David MacNicol, ‘Artist explores the 'dirty secrets' of Scotland's colonial past,’ BBC Scotland, October 2019, available here and here.