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ABOUT ME

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.



Photography credit: Bernice Mulenga


CV

Selected Exhibitions


Upcoming in 2025
[SOLO] To be announced Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Middlesbrough, England
[GROUP] To be announced Chelsea Space London, England

2025
[GROUP] 20/20 Project Digital Exhibition UAL: Decolonising Arts Institute (Online) London, England

2019
[GROUP] Making Ground, with the artists Ebun Sodipo & Rosa Johan Uddo   Embassy Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland

[GROUP] as of yet Many Studios  Glasgow, Scotland

2018
[GROUP] Terror & Beauty: Artists’ Response to John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea   Talbot Rice Gallery  Edinburgh, Scotland

Commissions


2023 - 2024
University Arts London: Decolonising Arts Institute 20/20 Project Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Middlesbrough & London, England

2022
Embodied Knowledge / Rhubaba Edinburgh, Scotland

2021 (published 2022)
PASSIONS published by Rhubaba Edinburgh, Scotland


Residencies


2023 - 2024
Artist in residence Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Middlesbrough, England

2023
Artist in residence, Studio Residency 2023 David Dale Gallery Glasgow, Scotland 

2019
Artist in residence (November) Rhythm Machine Edinburgh, Scotland

2018
Artist in residence (August) Rhythm Machine Edinburgh, Scotland


Public Collections


Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art    Birmingham Museums Trust     The Box    Bradford District Museums and Galleries    Bristol Museum and Art Gallery    Compton Verney    Harris Museum    The Hepworth Wakefield    The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum    Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum  Kettle's Yard    Leeds Art Gallery    The Lightbox    Manchester Art Gallery    National Disability Arts Collection and Archive    National Museums NI (Ulster Museum)    Pallant House Gallery    Sheffield Museums Trust    Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool    Wolverhampton Art Gallery


Public Talks, Workshops, Screenings & Contributions


2025
 maud. - A Film Screening & Conversation, speaking with the artists Adebusola Ramsay and Khadea Santi Tramway Glasgow, Scotland

2023
Artist facilitator & developer of the workshop Letter Drawing with Clay Race Rights & Sovereignty programme at The Glasgow School of Art Glasgow, Scotland

2022
Featured artist in the short film, maud. (2022), speaking with artist Adebusola Ramsay Director: Natasha Thembiso Ruwona, Executive Producer: Tomiwa Folorunso

Embodied Knowledge with Art Late 2, a conversation with artist and design scholar, Dr Sequoia Barnes, and artist, Khadea Santi Edinburgh Art Festival (Online) Edinburgh, Scotland

2021
a rant! a reel! Screening & Conversation, programmed by Languid Hands, with the artist Camara Taylor and filmmaker Sana Bilgrami Cubitt Artists (Online) London, England

2020
Poster design Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Scotland

2019
Surrounds, screening programmed by Camara Taylor The Glasgow School of Art Glasgow, Scotland

Photographer Scotch Bonnet for Free Pride Glasgow, Scotland

2018
Poster design Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Scotland

Awards & Grants


Visual Arts and Craft Makers Award (VACMA), Creative Scotland in 2024/2025, 2022/2023, 2021/2022 & 2020/2021 

Open Fund for Individuals: BLACK CLYDE / FUTURE ISLANDS, Creative Scotland in 2023

Grand Plan Grant in 2022

Creatives Explore Grant (British Council in partnership with Western Jerwood Creative Bursary) in 2022

Western Jerwood Creative Bursary in 2020 - 2022

The Alexander Flynn Bequest in 2018


Producing, Organising & Programming


2019 - ongoing
Director of Operations and Strategy Body Remedy Glasgow, Scotland

2023 - 2024
Curatorial Support for the group show Unnatural Urges featuring the artists Hang Linton, Clay AD, Laura Lulika & Jack Murphy Glasgow International 2024 Glasgow, Scotland 

2021 - 2022
Programme & Communications Fellow [enquire for further details]

2019 - 2021
Committee Member Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Scotland

2017 - 2018
Co-Founder SPIT Collective Edinburgh, Scotland


Qualifications


BA (Hons) Photography 2014 - 2018, First Class Honours [enquire for more details]

NQ Art & Design 2012 - 2013 Langside College Glasgow, Scotland



Contact regarding exhibitions & commissions   2025zoetumika.com