This MRP explores accent as an indicator of difference in three contemporary art works: Foe (2008) by Brendan Fernandes, The Perfect Sound (2009) by Katarina Zdjelar and English Forecast (2013) by Nicoline van Harskamp. I demonstrate how these artists utilise visual media to scrutinise the embodied accent and its relationship with individual identity, notions of race and place and the nature of English as a Lingua Franca. Through investigating how accent is deployed in these artists’ works, I explore the relation of race and ethnicity to the “marked” (accented) sound of a voice. In so doing, I draw attention to audible markers of difference, which often remain hidden within the universalising language of English communication, and through a postcolonial reading of audible difference as decolonial gesture, analyse how this audible difference is embedded into visible markers of difference.