In 2023, Marie worked as an artist-in-residence at the Horniman Museum and Gardens which holds features Anna Atkins' remarkable Study of British Algae. This study of four meticulously created volumes that were produced as cyanotype plates in the year 1848 and later bound as books in the 1880s.

Atkins is widely recognized as the pioneering female photographer to produce a comprehensive book of photographic illustrations. Her family had significant connections to Jamaica through the complex history of colonialism, as her husband, John Pelly Atkins, was the son of a plantation owner whose considerable wealth, which was partly derived from compensation for enslaved individuals following abolition, helped fund her artistic endeavors.

This historical background provided Marie with a deeper understanding of how Atkins was able to finance her innovative work. As someone with Jamaican heritage themselves, Marie has utilised Atkins' unique methods to reflect upon and reinterpret cyanotype art, skilfully incorporating both text and bleached cyanotypes to express their own personal perspective. This publication represents the second edition of a book that was originally bound and published in 2023.

Edition of 100
218mm x 270mm
48 pages
Section sewn
Foil blocked Hardback with debossed image
Published by Folium, 2025

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