tumikastudio[at]gmail.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie is an artist from and living in Glasgow, Scotland.
They experience making art and supporting the creative practices of others as a way to
breathe,
reconfigure,
play,
be (a)live,
shift through space
exist in multiple temporalities.
This is a metabolising research, process and making based creative practice informed by the politics of Black Radicalism. Zoë employs narrative building and dismantling, listening and questioning, to consider alternative understandings and activate further possibilities as a means towards some kind of liberation.
They make predominantly with clay, formalising ceramics using both handbuilding techniques and the pottery wheel. Each sculpture and vessel is an (im)material improvisation, responding to visuals, texts and sounds engaged with in Zoë’s research process. They also make using pen (lettering and drawing) and moving image.
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.
CV
Selected Exhibitions
Upcoming in 2025
2025
2019
2018
Commissions
2023 - 2024
2022
2021 (published 2022)
Residencies
2023 - 2024
2023
2019
2018
Public Collections
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Public Talks, Workshops, Screenings & Contributions
2025
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
Awards & Grants
Producing, Organising & Programming
2019 - 2025
2023 - 2024
2021 - 2022
2019 - 2021
2017 - 2018