Salomé Mercier

writer and translator

About

Based in London (-ish), I work as a writer, editor and translator. I mainly write about art and education, but have been known to extend my writing practice to subjects such as hands, ghosts, language, radical politics, what happens to young women when they spend a lot of time on the internet, etc, etc.I am the co-founder of the Common College of Art, a research platform focused on using pedagogy as an art practice (and the other way around) and questioning the corporate approach to art education.I am also currently working at/with/for US-based small press Discount Guillotine, as their translator and European editor.I hold a masters degree in Writing from the Royal College of Art (London), and a bachelor in Fine Art from the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Nîmes, France).

Contact

For any inquiries regarding freelance translation, research, writing or anything else really (I love reading emails and texts but rarely answer the phone) please get in touch at:

[email protected]
+33 7 82 25 70 41 (France)
+44 7516 814 387 (United Kingdom)Substack - salomemercier.substack.com

2025

• Erotic Continent (Yuyi Chen) translated into French, for Transat

• Our Strange House, for the Common College of Art (on art schools)

• this one is not a promise, for Spectra

'There should be new rules next week', for Descover, out in 2025
On art education

2024

• A space you get to shape with your hands, for The Pig Catcher (issue 2)

• No Surprises, for Art on the Underground

• In my dreams, for Are We There Yet

• Blood Oranges, for the Royal College of Art

2023

• Exhibition Review: Surrender, for The Dodo (issue 2)

If there was no word for blue

2021

• Il y a le bar, for Bozartistes (issue 0)

• Dans mon image, for MonaCorp

TRANSLATION

I have been working as a French to English and English to French freelance translator for the past 3 years. I mainly work with art institutions, curators and artists, but am available for projects of any type.
I have experience working with MTPE an transcription.Previous and current clients include Textwork (Fondation Pernod-Ricard), La Napoule Art Foundation, Bard College Centre for Curatorial Studies, Musixmatch, Discount Guillotine, and more.Samples of my work can be found here:

• Brice Dellsperger according to Evan Moffitt, translated into French

• Anne Le Troter according to Sofia Lemos, translated into French