Teneu

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Tenue

Tenue is a new bookwork featuring specially commissioned contributions by artists Helen Charman, Adrien Howard, Francis Jones, Mason Leaver-Yap, Joey Simons, Joanna Stawnicka, Lisette May Monroe, and Martha Adonai Williams, with illustrations by Sasha Staicu.

The project focuses on the mythology of Teneu, also known as St. Enoch, Glasgow’s forgotten mediaeval first mother and parent to St. Mungo, the city’s patron saint. St. Enoch is rumoured to be buried under the shopping centre in Glasgow that bears her name – and which, in fact, is the only place in Glasgow that her name can be found at all.

The St. Enoch Centre is the city’s largest shopping centre, an enormous glass pyramid that dominates the site in which it is situated. Rosie’s views Teneu as a way of narrating the complexities and the heartbeats of a city that everyone who has contributed to the collection has at some point called home. The work is a collective response to Teneu and her histories. It asks: who gets to be included in the mythologies of the places in which we live?

TENEU was commissioned as part of Glasgow International 2024.

Rosie’s Disobedient Press

Rosie’s Disobedient Press is an artist-led publishing project centring on writing from marginalised perspectives with a focus on queer, working class and feminist writers with accessibility to writing at its core.

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