1. Maud Sulter was a Scottish contemporary fine artist, photographer, writer, educator, feminist, cultural historian, and curator of Ghanaian heritage.
24 Facts About Maud Sulter
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Maud Sulter began her career as a writer and poet, becoming a visual artist not long afterwards.
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Maud Sulter was a champion of the African-American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, and was fascinated by the Haitian-born French performer Jeanne Duval.
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In Maud Sulter's Call and Response, she raised the topic of "the finest" and radical artists in London at the time identified as lesbians.
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Maud Sulter participated in The Thin Black Line exhibition, curated by Lubaina Himid at the ICA in London in 1985.
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Maud Sulter worked across photography, film, installation, collage and photomontage, sound and performance.
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Maud Sulter's photography was exhibited across the UK and internationally, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1987, the Johannesburg Biennale, and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2003.
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Maud Sulter received a number of awards and residencies, among them the British Telecom New Contemporaries Award 1990 and the Momart Fellowship at Tate Liverpool, in 1990.
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Two poems by Maud Sulter are accessible online: "Gone But Not Forgotten" and "If Leaving You".
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Maud Sulter's writings are available at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, Glasgow Women's Library, the Stuart Hall Library, London, Poetry Society, London, Tate Library, London, and many other libraries.
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Maud Sulter was Principal Lecturer in Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University, from 1992 to 1994.
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Maud Sulter wrote a series of prose poems for each muse, titled "Zabat Narratives".
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Maud Sulter created a complementary poem called "Blood Money", which has been republished in English.
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The central character, modelled by Maud Sulter, is the artist Hysteria.
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Maud Sulter appears in four of the images as a child and her growing up, semblance of her identity.
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Maud Sulter had a "visual fascination with Jeanne Duval" since 1988, which "willed" her to create a piece more specific to Duval.
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Maud Sulter published a book in relation to this piece, titled Jeanne Duval: A Melodrama, which can be accessed by clicking here.
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Maud Sulter worked with Sheba Feminist Publisher's Collective, starting in 1982.
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Maud Sulter co-founded the Blackwomen's Creativity Project in the early 1980s with Ingrid Pollard.
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Maud Sulter created her own publishing imprint, Urban Fox Press, releasing a new edition of her first collection of poetry, As a Blackwoman, along with her second poetry collection, Zabat: Poetics of a Family Tree, both in 1989.
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Maud Sulter died in 2008, aged 47, after a long illness.
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Maud Sulter was survived by her mother, Elsie, as well as her two daughters and son, Ama, Efia and Alexander.
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Maud Sulter's work created coalitions between Black feminist and lesbian groups.
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Maud Sulter: Passion travelled to the Impressions Gallery, Bradford, in 2016.