HOMEPAGE

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

[GROUP] To be announced

London College of Fashion, East Bank

London, England

2025
[GROUP] 20/20: Reflections Chelsea Space London, England
[SOLO] Guiding Entities MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Middlesbrough, 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

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

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 - 2025
Director of Operations and Lead Producer 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
tumikastudio[at]gmail.com

zoetumika.com

2025