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

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. 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.^[5]

Maud Sulter's work is held in a number of collections, including the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum,^[6] 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 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 also wrote a play inspired by the background of Jerry Rawlings, entitled Service to Empire.

Bibliography

• As a Blackwoman - poetry (1985)
• Zabat: Poetics of a Family Tree (1989)
• Passion (Urban - ) Discourses On Blackwomen's Creativity (1990), Urban Fox Press. ISBN 1872124305; ISBN 978-1872124308
• Necropolis - novel (1990), Urban Fox Press. ISBN 9781872124063
• Echo: Works by Women Artists, 1850-1940 (1991), Tate Publishing. ISBN 978-1854370815
• Service to Empire (2002), ISBN 978-0954330200
• Sekhmet: A Decade or So of Poems (2005), Dumfries and Galloway Cultural Services. ISBN 978-0946280698

Notes

External links

• "Passion - Blackwomen's Creativity: an interview with Maud Sulter", Spare Rib, February 1991. Issue: 220
• Works from the Zabat series at the V&A
• Maud Sulter on ScottishPoetryLibrary.org
• List of 1996 Johannesburg Biennial artists