The Land Sings Back, Artists’ Reading Lists

The Land Sings Back reimagines our relationship to our breathing planet through the work of thirteen artists with ancestries across South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Engaging with these cultural vocabularies through a lens of environmental justice, the exhibition approaches drawing as an active agent of social history, Indigenous knowledge and ecofeminist philosophy, rather than as a tool of illustration, classification and conquest.

Artists and curators taking part in Drawing Room’s exhibition programme are invited to compile ‘reading lists’ that inform and expand the themes explored in their work.  This list has been compiled by artists included in The Land Sings Back.  Titles marked with an asterisk * are held in the Library and Research Centre.

Click here to download a PDF of the Reading Lists.