Montserrat, County Cork Print - Limited Edition of 4

Montserrat is an island in the Caribbean with archaeology evidencing it was inhabited by native Caribbean communities from 2000BC to 500AD. It was settled again by Irish communities in the 1600s who seem to have brought Brehon Law with them. Fearing British invasion and given the ongoing settler colonial activities of the crown on the island of Ireland, the communities of Montserrat invited the French to claim the island. They did briefly occupy but were soon followed by the British who, needless to say, did not hold back. Despite the seizing by force of the island by the English, the island's legal status is that of a "colony acquired by settlement". The crown is known to this day for its penchant for radical subjectivity The British then transported enslaved people from sub-Saharan Africa, building an economy based on the production of sugar, rum, arrowroot and sea island cotton, cultivated on large plantations by slave labour. The enslaved descendants of Africans and the indentured servants of Irish descent were in close contact throughout and this has lead to today’s nation of black people with Corkonian surnames and accents. The Irish language was documented on the island until at least the mid-1800s. As with Ireland, there were various uprisings and rebellions, although they differed in that the objective was primarily to end slavery. These efforts were eventually successful and slavery was abolished in the 1830s. This is commemorated annually with a 10 day festival to coincide with St. Patrick’s Day. Presented here is my remix of an OS map of the island with sections of the island bearing Corkonian place names enlarged, printed using blueprint, a method used since 1840s to produce images for cartographic and architectural purposes. Following volcanic activity in the 1990s, much of the Irish region is now an exclusion zone. Like all of my maps, this is a guide through the subconscious, please don’t use it for navigational purposes!

Printmaking:Printmaking on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:4

Size:11.7 W x 8.3 H x 0.2 D in

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