The Recent, Eglė Budvytytė, Helen Cammock, Dorothy Cross, Regina de Miguel, Mikala Dwyer, Nicholas Mangan, Angelica Mesiti, Otobong Nkanga, Katie Paterson, Micol Roubini and Simon Starling, curated by Tessa Giblin, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 28 October 2023–17 February 2024

The Recent is a review essay of the titular group exhibition of works by Eglė Budvytytė, Helen Cammock, Dorothy Cross, Regina de Miguel, Mikala Dwyer, Nicholas Mangan, Angelica Mesiti, Otobong Nkanga, Katie Paterson, Micol Roubini and Simon Starling. It was curated by Tessa Giblin at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh on 28 October 2023–17 February 2024 and centred on Edinburgh University's collection of geologist Charles Lyell's work.

In my essay, I put the exhibition into a dialogue with Kathryn Yussof's ideas of racialised histories of geology in her book A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None, 2018.