Maud Sulter Live Programme: maud - A film screening and conversation

Part of our Maud Sulter Live Programme

Join us for the screening of the short film maud. (2022), a call to celebrate the life and work of the Scottish-Ghanaian artist Maud Sulter (1960 - 2008) who grew up in the Gorbals, Glasgow. 

Maud had an extremely diverse output of artistry; writing, image-making, curating, filmmaking, and sound. Her significance on multiple fronts - as a Black Scottish, Black British, African, Ghanaian, queer, working class and female artist has largely gone uncelebrated, until recently . The film considers her memory through conversations with Black artists who are making art in Scotland today, and reflects on Maud’s important contributions to excavating history, challenging art world politics, and community-building.

Following this screening, which opens a programme of events accompanying the exhibition Maud Sulter - You are my kindred spirit, there will be a conversation with artists and contributors to the film - Adebusola Ramsay, Sekai Machache, Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie, and Camara Taylor, and moderated by filmmakers Natasha Thembiso Ruwona (director) and Tomiwa Folorunso (executive producer). 

The Maud Sulter Live Programme is curated by Pelumi Odubanjo.

About the moderators

Tomiwa Folorunso is a writer, editor, producer and project manager working across film and arts festivals. She is most interested in contemporary cultures and diasporas in film and literature. 

Natasha Thembiso Ruwona is a Scottish-Zimbabwean artist-writer, researcher and community events producer based in London. Her work is rooted in placemaking and collaboration, focusing on nurturing spaces where people can connect and gather.
Recent projects as an artist include a film commission for Middlesbrough Arts Week 2024 titled Fugitive Sound Studies, initially developed as part of the FLAMIN Fellowship 2023-2024. She was a finalist for the Michael O’Pray Moving-Image Writing Prize in 2023, with her writing published in Art Monthly. In addition, Natasha was commissioned to create a film for Resisting Toxic Climates: Gender, Colonialism, and Environment, a conference hosted by the British Academy and the University of Edinburgh.
Natasha is currently supporting/holding these projects:
Syllabus Coordinator at Wysing Arts Centre
Events Producer and Communications Lead for Kinfolk Network
Events Producing for Decolonising Economics

Artists biogs

Camara Taylor is an artist based in Glasgow. They work with their various selves, collaborators and organisations to produce still and moving images, texts and other things that might act as moments of stasis amidst sprawling research. Projects  tend to encircle the accumulation and dissolution of image, language and (black) presence.
Recent exhibitions include Soft Impressions, DCA Dundee (2024); [mouthfeel], Tramway, commissioned by Glasgow International 2024 and backwash, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2022). camara was a Committee Member at Transmission Gallery from 2016 to 2018 and Programme Coordinator of the Race, Rights & Sovereignty series at The Glasgow School of Art from 2017 until 2021.  They have been a member of Collective Text since 2021 and are currently a tutor at Edinburgh College of Art.

Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie is an artist and experienced producer from and living in Glasgow, Scotland. Their creative practice consists of research, process and making - informed by the politics of Black Radicalism. They make predominantly with clay, formalising ceramics engaging both handbuilding techniques and the pottery wheel.
Currently Zoë is working in response to the provocation of the BLACK CLYDE, an embodied interrogation of the relations between blackness and the River Clyde, utilising these relations as portals to multiple spatiotemporal registers.

Adebusola Ramsay (b. 1983, Lagos, Nigeria) based in Glasgow, Scotland.
A visual artist, whose practice has developed over the last two decades; features evocative colour composition and textural detail, mostly with acrylic medium, exploring different forms of mark-making. Influenced by patterns and symbols, in particular weave/pattern-making of African cloths such as Aso-Oke, Kente and Adire. Graduated in 2004 with Bsc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences at University of Glasgow.

Sekai Machache (she/they) is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist and curator based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self, in which photography plays a crucial role in supporting an exploration of the historical and cultural imaginary.
Aspects of her photographic practice are formulated through digital studio-based compositions utilising body paint and muted lighting to create images that appear to emerge from darkness.
In recent works, she expands to incorporate other media and approaches that can help to evoke that which is invisible and undocumented. She is interested in the relationship between spirituality, dreaming and the role of the artist in disseminating symbolic imagery to provide a space for healing against contexts of colonialism and loss.
Sekai is the recipient of the 2020 RSA Morton Award and is an artist in residence with the Talbot Rice Residency Programme 2021-2023.
Sekai works internationally and often collaboratively, for and with her community and is a founding and organising member of the Yon Afro Collective (YAC)