Delineate
Co-commissioned by Natalia Palombo for Many Studios,
Kayus Bankole and Tiffany Boyle for Mother Tongue
Launch: May 2022
River Esk in Midlothian, Research Image by Tiffany Boyle
'Delineate’ is an artist book project, produced via a three-way partnership between Natalia Palombo (Many Studios), Kayus Bankole and Tiffany Boyle (from curatorial duo Mother Tongue). Edited by Palombo, Bankole and Boyle, ‘Delineate’ will commission texts from a cohort of artists, writers and researchers, across various forms of writing (essays, poetry, fiction, lyrics, etc).
Thematically the project draws on the historical links between papermilling in Edinburgh, cotton and linen production, and colonial trade between Scotland and the ‘New World.’ It responds to sites such as St. Andrews Square, Dalry (the site the Scotland’s first paper mill in 1590) and the Water of Leith and Union Canal.
The book will feature commissions from Alberta Whittle, Cassie Ejezi, Chizu Anucha, Daisy Desrosiers, Irineu Destourelles, Mathieu Abonnenc, Swapnaa Tamhane, Tabita Rezaire, Tanatsei Gambura.
The project is funded by Edinburgh City Council; The National Lottery through Creative Scotland, Fluxus, Canada House, and Hope Scott Trust.
Natalia Palombo
Kayus Bankole
Tiffany Boyle
Delineate includes two commissions: i laugh because i know they cannot kill me, Chizu Anucha, 2023, video with sound; Untitled, Swapnaa Tamhane, digital print, 2023. Untitled by Swapnaa Tamhane is inserted into the physical publication. A new film by Chizu Anucha is below.
Chizu Anucha, i laugh because i know they cannot kill me, 2023.
Kayus Bankole is a member of the Edinburgh hip-hop trio Young Fathers, winners of the 2014 Mercury Music prize and two Scottish Album of the Year Awards, alongside Alloysious Massaquoi and Graham 'G' Hastings. Signed to label Ninja Tune, six of their tracks featured on the T2 Trainspotting score, also appearing on the FIFA2019 soundtrack. They have released three studio albums: Dead (2014), White Men Are Black Men Too (2015), and Cocoa Sugar, 2018. In 2017, Young Fathers were commissioned by the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Portrait Gallery, London to respond to the Van Eyck touring exhibition ‘Looking Good,’ and in 2020, Bankole produced the work ‘Sugar for Your Tea’ projected onto Edinburgh City Chambers as part of this year’s edition of Message from the Skies.
Mother Tongue is a curatorial duo formed by ECA-graduate Tiffany Boyle and Jessica Carden in 2009. They have since collaboratively produced exhibitions, film programmes, discursive events and texts, most recently curating the 2019/2020 exhibition ‘Transparency: Alberta Whittle and Hardeep Pandhal’ at Edinburgh Printmakers. Their research-led projects explore representation, migration, post-colonialism, and diversity in the arts, and they have worked with organisations including the National Galleries of Scotland and Stills: Scotland’s Centre for Photography, Art Fund, MAP magazine, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, GoMA Glasgow, British Council, and the Hauser & Wirth Institute New York. Tiffany Boyle has lectured at The Glasgow School of Art since 2016 and is based in the Department for Design History & Theory.