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Maud Sulter (1960–2008) was an artist and writer, curator and gallerist of Ghanain and Scottish heritage who lived and worked in Britain.

Background

Maud Sulter was born on 19 September 1960 in Glasgow, Scotland to a Scottish mother and a Ghanaian father. She studied art history and design and completed a master’s degree in Photographic Studies at the University of Derby.

Career

Between 1992 and 1994, she was Principal Lecturer in Fine At at Manchester Metropolitan University. She founded the gallery Rich Women of Zurich in Clerkenwell, London, with the remit to promote cultural diversity and mid-career artists. She was awarded the British Telecom New Contemporaries Award 1990 and the Momart Fellowship at the Tate Gallery Liverpool in 1990. For her poetry collection As a Blackwoman, she was awarded the Vera Bell Prize for Poetry.

Exhibitions

Maud Sulter represented Britain at Africus, the Johannesburg Biennale of 1995. Her art has been acquired by the Scottish Parliament, the Arts Council Collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Council Collection, the National Galleries of Scotland, and the National Portrait Gallery, London. She wrote several collections of poetry, and edited a pioneering collection of writings and images, Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen’s Creativity, published by the imprint she founded, Urban Fox Press in 1990. She was active in the Black feminist and lesbian movements, often inspired by African-American activists, artists and writers.

In the 2010s there been a resurgence of interest in Maud Sulter's work. The curatorial Revisiting "Two Invisible Case Studies" | Malmö Konsthall

Maud Sulter & Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé

Presented as part of 24 Spaces: A Cacophony*

29 July - 7 August 2013

== In 2012, Mother Tongue were invited to work with the archives of the Third Eye Centre/Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow. Their response took the form of re-presenting exhibition material and artworks from Maud Sulter and Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, existing in the archive via the exhibitions Alba [1995] and Through Photography [1989], respectively. While both were active artists in Glasgow in the late 1980ʼs and early 1990ʼs, they are notably absent from the grand ʻGlasgow Miracleʼ narrative, detached from their contemporaries, an issue about which both Sulter and Bamgboyé were vocal. The ʻGlasgow Miracleʼ is a term coined by the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist in the mid-1990's to describe the emergence of a strong artistic community in the city at that time. ==

== Alongside the original exhibition Mother Tongue produced a critical essay titled The Whiteness Necessitated by the Glasgow Miracle: Two Invisible Case Studies. For 24 Spaces, we are re-visiting this previous project, conducting interviews with figures directly and indirectly involved with the Glasgow art community, existing within the revised publication under the title Part II, which is available in the gallery space alongside the original archival works from Sulter and Bamgboyé. == * on invitation from Transmission Gallery [Glasgow], GENERATORprojects [Dundee] and Embassy Gallery [Edinburgh].

http://www.mothertongue.se/index.php/revisiting-two-invisible-case-studies--malmoe/