Read More is an ongoing Alchemy Film & Arts project designed to encourage additional engagement with its film exhibitions and other events. Available to read at relevant exhibitions and in the Alchemy Film & Arts office, Read More consists of books and other reading materials recommended by artists to complement their Alchemy-related events. 

Maybelle Peters’ contribution to Read More coincides with her project We Deh Here, a residency with Alchemy Film & Arts in September 2024 exploring family connections, historical ties and traces of colonial encounters. 

Drawing and expanding on the artist’s focus on movement through observation, labour and animation, the project seeks to connect personal narratives to wider historical events, researching materials held in official archives together with family histories along matrilineal lines, sewing, and associations with Guyana and Scotland. Manifesting as a film and exhibition, the work had its first public iteration at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2025.

• ALEXANDER, Elizabeth (2004). The Black Interior. St. Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press.
• ALSTON, David (2021). Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• DA COSTA, Emilia Viotti (1994). Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. New York: Oxford University Press.
• HARDING, Thomas (2022). White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
• RAIN, Thomas (1892). The Life and Labours of John Wray, Pioneer Missionary in British Guiana. London: John Murray.

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