Maud Sulter: Passion

Maud Sulter: Passion is a major retrospective of the work of Maud Sulter (1960–2008), an award-winning artist and writer, curator and gallerist of Ghanaian and Scottish heritage who lived and worked in Britain.
This exhibition, selected by Deborah Cherry, includes key chapters in Sulter's multilayered photographic art practice: works from the critically acclaimed Zabat (1989), and for the first time since their initial exhibitions across Britain, several works from each of the projects Hysteria, Syrcas and Les Bijoux. This exhibition represents the first detailed examination and exhibition of Sulter’s work since 2003, with exclusive and unique access by the curators to the Sulter archive. The exhibition draws upon individual private collections, as well as works in the public holdings of Harris Museum and Art Gallery (Preston), The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum, and City Arts Centre, Edinburgh.

This exhibition is an Autograph ABP / Street Level Photoworks partnership, in association with TrAIN (Transnational Art and Nation) and is the outcome of a curatorial research project by Deborah Cherry, Professor of Art History at the University of the Arts London, and Deputy Director of TrAIN, and artist and curator Ajamu, funded by Arts Council England.

Street Level Photoworks are also exhibiting Maud Sulter’s ‘About Face’ at Hillhead Library, in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library. This capsule collection of large format Polaroid portraits of ten renowned Scottish poets was taken in 2002.

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