Maud Sulter

Maud Sulter (19 September 1960–27 February 2008)[1] was a contemporary fine artist and writer of Ghanaian and Scottish heritage who lived and worked in Britain.

Education

Maud Sulter attained a master's degree in Photographic Studies[1] from the University of Derby.[2]

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,[3] also in 1990. In 2011-12, her work was shown at Tate Britain in the exhibition Thin Black Lines,[4] which was a re-staging of the seminal 1986 exhibition The Thin Black Line at the ICA.

Maud Sulter's work is held in a number of collections, including the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum,[5] the Arts Council Collection, the British Council, the Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Parliament Collection.

As well as writing about art history, Sulter was also a poet and playwright, whose works include As a Blackwoman (1985), which won the Vera Bell Prize for poetry that year; Zabat (1989); and Sekhmet (2005). She also wrote a play about Jerry Rawlings, entitled Service to Empire.

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Obituary in The Herald Newspaper, 22 March 2008.
  2. ↑ http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/biographies/42737336/part-one-contemporary-biographies-maud-sulter
  3. ↑ "Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde: Timeline". tate.or.uk.
  4. ↑ Thin Black Lines at Tate.Org.Ukdead link]
  5. ↑ "Urania (Portrait of Lubaina Himid); Zabat". Victoria & Albert Museum.

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