Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie is an artist from and living in Glasgow, Scotland.
Zoë makes work about being, in the many ways they imagine being can be for them. In their practice, making work and producing the work of others is a site to
breathe,
reconfigure,
unclog,
play,
be (a)live,
be unfixed.
A space which tightly embraces abundance and multiplicity.
Zoë work predominantly with clay and make ceramics using handbuilding techniques as well as wheel throwing. They also make using pen (lettering and drawing) and video.
Zoë makes work about being, in the many ways they imagine being can be for them. In their practice, making work and producing the work of others is a site to
breathe,
reconfigure,
unclog,
play,
be (a)live,
be unfixed.
A space which tightly embraces abundance and multiplicity.
Zoë work predominantly with clay and make ceramics using handbuilding techniques as well as wheel throwing. They also make using pen (lettering and drawing) and video.
They interrogate Scotland’s colonial history, specifically relating to and the legacies of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Informed by the politics Black Radicalism Zoë employs narrative building and dismantling, listening and questioning, to consider alternative understandings and activate further possibilities as a means to liberation.
Zoë is currently Lead Producer at Body Remedy, a Glasgow-based [forming] ecology that centres physical practice for self-recovery. Contributors and participants of Body Remedy are black people and people of colour who identify as women and non-binary.
Zoë was a recipient of a Western Jerwood Creative Bursary 2020 – 2022. They were also a committee member at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow from 2019 – 2021.
Informed by the politics Black Radicalism Zoë employs narrative building and dismantling, listening and questioning, to consider alternative understandings and activate further possibilities as a means to liberation.
Zoë is currently Lead Producer at Body Remedy, a Glasgow-based [forming] ecology that centres physical practice for self-recovery. Contributors and participants of Body Remedy are black people and people of colour who identify as women and non-binary.
Zoë was a recipient of a Western Jerwood Creative Bursary 2020 – 2022. They were also a committee member at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow from 2019 – 2021.
[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A yellow, glossy ceramic form. It’s shape is made from stacked-up bands of clay, kind of like cartoon deflated tyres stacked up one on top another.
The image of the yellow ceramic form is overlapped by handrwitten text. It says ‘THER THER THER’ in thick, black, shaking lettering.]
[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A yellow, glossy ceramic form. It’s shape is made from stacked-up bands of clay, kind of like cartoon deflated tyres stacked up one on top another.
The image of the yellow ceramic form is overlapped by handrwitten text. It says ‘THER THER THER’ in thick, black, shaking lettering.]
2023