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Image © Maud Sulter 2002. Courtesy of the Estate of Maud Sulter
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Maud Sulter (1960-2008) was an award-winning artist and writer of Ghanaian and Scottish descent who lived and worked in Britain. Her significance today lies in her dramatic and bold re-invention of the imagery of Black women and her art emphasises the long-standing presence of Africa in western art and modernity. She exhibited widely and represented Britain at
Africus, the Johannesburg Biennale of 1995. Her art has been acquired by numerous private and public collections.
As A Blackwoman was the title of her first collection of poems, and this perspective shaped her work as an artist, writer, curator, film-maker and cultural historian. She edited a pioneering collection of writings and images,
Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen’s Creativity, founded Urban Fox Press, networked internationally in Black feminist and lesbian movements, curated nearly 20 exhibitions, and set up a gallery, Rich Women of Zurich in central London.
Our project is to produce the first sustained publication about her art.
Maud Sulter: Passion will accompany two exhibitions about her work opening in Glasgow this spring. Maud Sulter Passion at Street Level Photoworks (25 April-20 June) and her capsule collection of portraits of Scottish Poets at
Hillhead Library (opening 17 April). Glasgow was her home-town, and she retained strong connections to the city, exhibiting at
Street Level Photoworks on several occasions, and curating a path-breaking show there in 1995 entitled
Photogenetic: Reviewing the Lens of History.
Our aim is to bring her achievement to new generations, to inspire and to ensure her legacy. Maud Sulter: Passion will showcase works from her major series of works such as Zabat, Sphinx, Hysteria, Syrcas and Les Bijoux. Previously unseen images and materials from her archives will illuminate her working processes from studio photography to photomontage reveal the experimental nature of her practice. Installation shots, invitation cards, and posters document her life and work.
What We Need & What You Get
Our rewards are special. We offer unused copies of rare items – invitation cards, exhibition brochures, and collections of Maud Sulter’s writings. These are books that Maud designed and published. They are all limited editions, and you cannot buy them today. We are producing a limited edition souvenir digital card with the names of donors over £50. Early bird donors will be personally invited to the exhibition opening.
Everything you give helps us to produce our publication and to extend Maud Sulter’s legacy. We are printing with a small press in Belgium called
Cassochrome, renowned for the high quality of its production and print.
Our publisher is Altitude Editions Press, a new small press which takes its name from the Altitude award set up by Maud Sulter to honor Black women artists. We have already raised some of the funds we need. Your contribution enables us to ensure that the book is beautifully produced. Anything we raise beyond our target goes straight back into the project to do more, to secure the future for Maud Sulter's art, and to continue her inspirational work into the future.
Maud Sulter: Passion is designed by award-winning young artist and graphic designer
Paul Bailey. It will showcase her major works, with over 40 colour plates, together with a classic interview with the artist and selected archive materials. Our exhibition and publication are based on 2 years of intensive research and funded by a partnership between
Autograph-ABP,
Street Level Photoworks,
University of the Arts London,
TrAIN by the
Arts Council of England.
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