Salomé Mercier

writer and translator

About

Salomé is a London-based writer, editor and translator. She mostly writes about art and education, but has been known to extend her 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.She is the co-founder of the Common College of Art, a platform for researching pedagogy as an art practice and questioning the corporate approach to art education.She is currently working at/with/for US-based small press Discount Guillotine, as a translator and European editor. She also translates and copyedits works for art institutions, presses, and pretty much anyone who asks.She holds 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 receiving emails), please reach out at:

[email protected]
+33 7 82 25 70 41 (France)
+44 7516 814387 (United Kingdom)Substack - salomemercier.substack.com

2025

• 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

Salomé has been working as a French to English and English to French freelance translator for the past 3 years. She also has experience with MTPE and transcription, with or without translation.She mostly works with art institutions and writers, but is available for projects of any type.Previous clients include La Napoule Art Foundation, Bard College Centre for Curatorial Studies, Musixmatch/Spotify, Discount Guillotine, and more.