Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson, Shiraz Bayjoo

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 narratives of slavery, colonialism, and violence which shaped that period.