‘Bounty’: a new artist’s book by Steve McQueen
MACK
Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen’s new book Bounty offers a subtle exploration of the legacies of colonial history through meditative photographs of Grenada’s plant life. Made on a trip in 2024, these images reckon with historic trauma embedded in the island’s luscious landscape, inspired in part by the Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott’s elegy to his mother, ‘The Bounty’. The book includes Walcott’s epic poem alongside a new text by poet and novelist Dionne Brand. 
'In these photographs, the flowers become part of a larger story about land and liberation. They bloom alongside histories of colonial exploitation and revolutionary aspiration. And they remain in place as human systems rise and fall.' 
Coinciding with Steve McQueen’s exhibition ‘Atlas’ at De Pont Museum, Tilburg, 21 March–30 August 2026 Designed by Irma Boom 
UPCOMING EVENT Wednesday 22 April Steve McQueen will be in conversation with writer and critic Paul Gilroy to celebrate the launch of Bounty.      MACK |
