From and living in Glasgow, Scotland, Zoë is an artist-curator working under the artist name, Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie. They engage with clay and image (re)production to process, understand and share articulations of the world around them. Their practice is a site for them to: breathe; reconfigure; play; be (a)live; shift through space; exist in multiple temporalities.

Frameworks from Black Feminism, Geographies and Studies; and African cosmologies inform Zo, Tumika & Guthrie’s approach to narrative building and dismantling; to listening and questioning; and exercising of liberatory practices.

Ceramics, drawing, moving image and sound constellate metaphorical descriptions of their conceptualisation of time and space. This is further underwritten, and affirmed in the multitude of physical processes engaged with when working with these mediums. Zo, Tumika & Guthrie’s practice expresses a deep appreciation of these materials’ respective and collective capacities to facilitate fluid, elastic expression.

Clay forms a central medium for meditation, play, and processing complex cultural and personal collisions. Ceramic works are often created slowly over extended durations using both handbuilding techniques and the pottery wheel. The surfaces don intuitive marks, repetitions and lettering - an (im)material improvisation, responding to visuals, texts and sounds engaged within Zo, Tumika & Guthrie’s research process.


© Matthew Arthur Williams, courtesy of The Glasgow School of Art

Zoë is the recipient of the Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship 2025 at The Glasgow School of Art, alongside their collaborator Żżo Charlery. Together they seek to frame the GSA Archives & Collections and Jerwood Collection into view with Black spatial practices, performance, and material thinking.

Selected Exhibitions


2026
[SOLO] UPCOMING aweys gaun as part of Glasgow International, Many Studios, Glasgow, Scotland
[GROUP] PRINT PLAY REPEAT Ralph Cowan Gallery Glasgow, Scotland
[CURATOR / GROUP] Black Waters: Inference to The Veil Reid Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

2025
[SOLO] Guiding Entities MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Middlesbrough, England
[GROUP] 20/20: Futures London College of Fashion, East Bank  London, England
[GROUP] The 20/20 Portfolio Pallant House Gallery  Chichester, England
[GROUP] 20/20: Reflections II Chelsea Space London, England
[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


2026 - 2027
Artist in Residence Glasgow Sculpture Studios Glasgow, Scotland

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
 In conversation with the artists Adjoa Armah Chelsea Space London, England
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


  • Open Fund for Individuals, Creative Scotland in 2025
  • Shortlisted for The Supporting Act Foundation Artist Grant (The Netherlands) in 2025
  • Shortlisted for The Burton at Bideford Ceramics Residency (England) in 2025
  • Shortlisted for Fluxus Art Projects Magnetic 4 Residencies (France) in 2025
  • Shortlisted for Cove Park Awarded Residencies 2025 & 2026 (Scotland) in 2025
  • Visual Arts and Craft Makers Award (VACMA), Creative Scotland in 2024/2025, 2022/2023, 2021/2022 & 2020/2021 
  • Open Fund for Individuals, 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

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