‘THE FRIEND’, (2025). Glazed high-fired stoneware.
[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The profile of a white stoneware clay entity with yellow braided eyes and an open mouth. The neck of the sculpture is covered in black gestural marks, the form blows out into a textural round belly. Drippy red glaze covers the entire sculpture.]

Zoë is an artist from and living in Glasgow, Scotland and works under the artist name Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie.

Metabolising through artistic, creative, untethered processes, their practice sits in the traditions of Black Radicalism.

Chewing on pasts and often feeling the present as burning hot Zo, Tumika & Guthrie works across multiple mediums, with extended focus on the production of ceramics and video / moving image. Click here to read a further detailed artist statment.

“This is a way of living, and an analytical frame, that is curious and sustained by wonder (the desire to know). This is a method that demands openness and is unsatisfied with questions that result in descriptive-data-induced answers. Black studies and anticolonial thought offer methodological practices wherein we read, live, hear, groove, create, and write across a range of temporalities, places, texts, and ideas that build on existing liberatory practices and pursue ways of living the world that are uncomfortably generous and provisional and practical…

Black method is precise, detailed, coded, long, and forever.”

Katherine McKittrick, Dear Science and Other Stories

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