Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen continues his exploration of colonial history and its legacies in this new book comprised of meditative 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. Rendered in vivid colour, the images reflect the complex interlocking of history, heritage, and survival contained in the simplicity of the island flora. 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. Grounded in a deep reverence for the sublime natural world, Bounty invites a visceral engagement with the silent endurance of nature despite the grim realities of human history. Sir Steve McQueen (b. 1969) is a British film director, film producer, screenwriter, and artist based in London and Amsterdam. Surveys of McQueen's work have been held at the Art Institute of Chicago (2012); Schaulager, Mu¨nchenstein (2013); Tate Modern, London (2020); and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2022). He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Turner Prize (1999); the W. E. B. Du Bois Medal, Harvard University (2014); and the Johannes Vermeer Award (2016). McQueen directed the feature films Hunger (2008), Shame (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Widows (2018), and Blitz (2024); the documentary Occupied City (2023); the series Small Axe (2020), an anthology of five films shown on the BBC and Amazon; and Uprising (2021), a threepart documentary series for the BBC. McQueen won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes Film Festival for Hunger in 2008, and an Oscar for Best Motion Picture for 12 Years a Slave in 2014. Publisher: Mack Books Publish Date: April 01 2026 Pages: Language: English Type: Hardcover EAN/UPC: 9781917651547 BISAC Categories: Individual Artists - Monographs, Photography
