Maud Sulter

Maud Sulter (19 September 1960 – 27 February 2008)[1] was a contemporary fine artist, photographer, writer and curator of Ghanaian and Scottish heritage who lived and worked in Britain. She died in Dumfries in 2008 and is survived by two daughters and a son.

Education

Born in Glasgow to a Scots mother and a Ghanaian father,[2] Maud Sulter attained a master's degree in Photographic Studies[1] from the University of Derby.[3]

Career

Sulter's photographic practice included contemporary portraiture and montage. Her work typically referenced historical and mythical subjects. Her photography was exhibited in across the UK and internationally, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1987; the Johannesburg Biennial (1996); and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2003. She received a number of awards and residencies, including the British Telecom New Contemporaries Award 1990 and the Momart Fellowship at Tate Liverpool,[4] also in 1990.

She worked closely with Lubaina Himid, including on the book Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen’s Creativity, published by Urban Fox Press in 1990.[5]

As well as writing about art history and curating many exhibitions,[6] Sulter was also a poet and playwright, whose works include the collections As a Blackwoman (1985; her poem of the same title won the Vera Bell Prize from ACER, the Afro-Caribbean Education Resource, the previous year);[2] Zabat (1989); and Sekhmet (2005). She wrote a play inspired by the background of former Ghana head of state Jerry Rawlings, entitled Service to Empire.

Legacy

Maud Sulter's work is held in a number of collections, including the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum,[7] the Arts Council Collection, the British Council, the Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Parliament Collection.

In 2011–12, her work was shown at Tate Britain in the exhibition Thin Black Line(s), which was a re-staging of the seminal 1986 exhibition The Thin Black Line at the ICA.[8]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Joint exhibitions with Lubaina Himid

Group exhibitions

Bibliography

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Maud Sulter" (obituary), The Herald Newspaper, 22 March 2008.
  2. 1 2 Margaret Busby (ed.), "Maud Sulter", Daughters of Africa, London: Vintage, 1993, p. 921.
  3. ↑ "PART ONE: Contemporary Biographies: MAUD SULTER", EBSCO, January 2006.
  4. ↑ "Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde: Timeline". tate.or.uk.
  5. ↑ "Maud Sulter" at Diaspora Artists.
  6. ↑ "Maud Sulter", Autograph ABP.
  7. ↑ "Urania (Portrait of Lubaina Himid); Zabat". Victoria & Albert Museum.
  8. ↑ "Thin Black Line(s)", Making Histories Visible.

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