Part of Four Corners Familiars - Artists’ responses to classic novels and short stories

Mauritian artist, Shiraz Bayjoo, works with film, painting, photography, performance, and installation. His research-based practice focuses on personal and public archives addressing cultural memory and postcolonial nationhood in a manner that challenges dominant cultural narratives.

He has created a new artist’s book in response to Treasure Island. Presented alongside Stevenson’s text, Bayjoo’s images take us from the ports of England to landscapes scarred by plantations and mines. From the brutality of the 18th Century colonial Caribbean, to the Indian Ocean, and to wider global histories of slavery, colonialism and violence which shaped that period.

Clothbound hardback,
280 pages on Muken Pure Rough 90gsm,
with single-leaf insert on translucent paper
23.5 x 16.3 cm

Four Corners Familiar #14
Designed by John Morgan
Published: 12 May 2022