Publication

Rawlins’ work is extensively published. He provided the cover image for the Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies (2020), and his practice is featured in Caribbean Art (Thames & Hudson, World of Art series, 2021), As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic (Wedge Collection, 2021), The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces (Fitzwilliam Museum / Paul Hoberton Publishing, 2021), and Liberation Begins in the Imagination: Writings on Caribbean-British Art, edited by David A. Bailey and Alison Thompson — the definitive text on Caribbean-British artistic practice. He appears in the A-Z of Caribbean Art (2019) and the Global Africa Project catalog (Museum of Art and Design, New York, 2010). His work has been the subject of academic writing in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (2007), founded by Professor Stuart Hall, and in British Art Studies (2023). Press coverage includes the Financial Times, the Evening Standard, and Google Arts & Culture. He contributed the essay “Everybody Got to Relax, Man!” to the Get Up, Stand Up Now catalog at Somerset House (2019).

• Feeling as Language by Kadish Morris, Drawing Biennial 2026 Catalog
• Another Horizon (2020), cover image: Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies, edited by Patricia Noxolo, Kevon Rhiney, and Ronald Cummings, Routledge International Handbooks, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
• “Sugar Time: Reactivating Memories of Scottish Empire through Contemporary Art and Performance,” British Art Studies, issue 25, December 2023, article by Emma Bond.
• Hospital Rooms: Springfield University Hospital, pp. 106–109, Richard Mark Rawlins, Yet Another Horizon, Portals of Possibilities.
• We Out Here, Hastings Contemporary. Review by Gareth Stevens, Artlyst, https://artlyst.com/reviews/we-out-here-hastings-contemporary-jude-montague/.
• Review by Gareth Stevens, Hastings Independent Press, https://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/arts/we-out-here/.
• “There Is No British History Without Me: How Black Artists Are Reshaping the Past,” iNews, https://inews.co.uk/culture/arts/there-is-no-british-history-without-me-how-black-artists-are-reshaping-history-1981410.
• Liberation Begins in the Imagination: Writings on Caribbean-British Art, by David A. Bailey and Alison Thompson, pp. 359–360, 370, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Liberation-Begins-Imagination-Writings-Caribbean/dp/1849767661.
• As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic: Selections from the Wedge Collection (2021), pp. 136–137, https://www.amazon.co.uk/As-We-Rise-Photography-Contemporary/dp/159711510X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=as+we+rise&qid=1639570343&sr=8-1.
• Caribbean Art (World of Art, 2021), pp. 276–277, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Caribbean-Art-World-Veerle-Poupeye-dp-0500204780/dp/0500204780/ref=dp_ob_title_bk.
• The Human Touch: Making Art Leaving Traces, pp. 9, A Show of Hands, pp. 172–177, Paul Hoberton Publishing, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Touch-Making-Leaving-Traces/dp/1913645053/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EPDUB1AS93CY&dchild=1&keywords=human+touch+making+art&qid=1635781702&sprefix=human+touch+making+art%2Caps%2C76&sr=8-1.
• Richard Mark Rawlins Interview with Fitzwilliam Museum.
• “The Past Comes Full Circle: Quarantine and Art,” a conversation between Dr. Marsha Pearce and Richard Mark Rawlins, 03.06.2020.
• International Review of African American Art, vol. 29, no. 4, April 2020, edited by Eddie Chambers, dedicated to Black Atlantic Dialogues, p. 7, “Black Atlantic Influences, Interlocutors and Image-Makers in the Group Exhibition Get Up, Stand Up Now” by Carol Dixon.
• A-Z of Caribbean Art (2019), p. 236, Robert and Christopher Publishers, https://www.amazon.com/Z-Caribbean-Art-Rob-Perrée/dp/9769534498/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=a-z+of+caribbean+art&qid=1572586379&sr=8-1.
• “Conflagrationary Fate: Unvarnished. Ranting and Rambling Round the Fringes of the Artworld with Arthur Bermain,” 05.07.19, Get Up Stand Up Now blog review, http://unvarnished.co.uk/2019/07/05/conflagrationary-fate/.
• Google Arts & Culture, https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/empowerment-from-the-series-i-am-sugar/UgG1Iv2nk_bdCw.
• The Financial Times, 14.06.19, “Jewels from the Windrush: Get Up, Stand Up Now at Somerset House,” https://www.ft.com/content/e17e3354-8c55-11e9-b8cb-26a9caa9d67b.
• Evening Standard, 13.06.19, https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/get-up-stand-up-now-generations-of-black-creative-pioneers-review-somerset-house-a4166431.html.
• The Up Coming, 12.06.19, “Get Up Stand Up Now at Somerset House,” https://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2019/06/12/get-up-stand-up-now-at-somerset-house-exhibition-review/.
• The Londonist, 12.06.19, “Three Brilliant Exhibitions Celebrate Britain’s Diversity at Somerset House,” https://londonist.com/london/art-and-photography/get-up.
• Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers catalog, Somerset House, UK, June 12–September 15, 2019, p. 30, contributed text “Everybody Got to Relax, Man!,” p. 125, Bio and Image.
• OVERPRINT Catalog (issue 1/3), p. 10, OVERPRINT Catalog (issue 3/3), Centre De La Gravure et De Limage Imprimée, La Louvière, April 28–September 16, 2018.
• The Art Collection / Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (Catalog), p. 202.
• A Dress to the Nation: There Is Not a Happy Place, Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 63, issue 4, 2017, pp. 445–448.
• DIGITAL Catalog, National Gallery of Jamaica, April 4–July 4, 2016, p. 34.
• Jamaica Biennial 2014 (Catalog), National Gallery of Jamaica, December 7, 2014–March 15, 2015, pp. 40–41.
• Small Axe 23, a Caribbean Journal of Criticism, June 2007, pp. 115–118, “Visualizing Trinidad’s Political Discontent: The Contemporary Art of Christopher Cozier and Richard Mark Rawlins, 1990–2012,” thesis, University of the West Indies Theses Collection, http://uwispace.sta.uwi.edu/dspace/handle/2139/45219.
• “Getting Tricked While Finding Black” by Nicole Smythe-Johnson, FINDING BLACK catalog, Medulla Art Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad, October 22–November 12, 2015.
• The Global Africa Project catalog, Museum of Arts and Design, November 17, 2010–May 15, 2011, pp. 104, 123, 208–209.
• Season of Renewal catalog, Celebrating 50 Years of Independence and Caribbean Partnership, June 7–June 11, 2012, p. 63.
• Richard Mark Rawlins, Gotcha catalog, Draconian Switch Monograph, Straddling Worlds by Adele Todd, p. 9, Politics and Art by Andre Bagoo, p. 28.
• 102nd Anniversary Celebration 2016 featuring Art Exhibition, Poetry, and Spoken Word, Port of Spain Corporation, p. 16.
• Beyond Representation in Caribbean Contemporary Art: Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere, Carlos Garrido Castellano, p. 154, 189n. 58.
• The Rough Guide to Trinidad and Tobago (2018), by Polly Thomas, Rough Guides.
• “Vermont Studio Center Alumni: Richard Mark Rawlins and Katherine Kennedy,” Guyana Chronicle, February 19, 2017.
• Consensus and Dissent: Negotiating Emotion in the Public Space, edited by Anne Storch, chapter 5, “Emotions in Jamaican: African Conceptualizations, Emblematicity, and Multimodality in Discourse and Public Spaces,” Andrea Hollington, p. 93, https://books.google.tt/books?id=FEA1DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=richard+mark+rawlins&source=bl&ots=gZadxaXwf_&sig=ACfU3U1MySoIWUgo7foY0O7gsI3Oa9JcIQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiTgILY_ZfkAhVsoFkKHdZ_Aqg4HhDoATADegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=richard%20mark%20rawlins&f=false.

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