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  • Maud Sulter

    Maud Sulter is a Scots artist, writer, cultural historian and course leader of the Masters programme in Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. Previous exhibitions include African Themes, Victoria and Albert Museum London (1993) Intimate Lives, City Art Centre Edinburgh (1993) and Hysteria, Tate Gallery Liverpool (1991). Maud Sulter edited the book Passion: Discourses in Blackwomens Creativity and has curated several international exhibitions.

  • Cate Rimmer

    Cate Rimmer, 1961, is a curator from Calgary, Alberta. She was the founding Director/Curator of Artspeak Gallery, Director of Truck Gallery and was a Curator in Residence at the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal. Rimmer has published reviews, articles and catalogue texts. She received a diploma in Curatorial Studies from Emily Carr and graduated with a MLitt (with distinction) in Museum and Gallery Studies from the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Exhibitions

AKWABA

MAUD SULTER
September 10–October 9, 1993

AKWABA is a meditation on the african cultural artefact in relation to the Self for the diasporan African and the functioning of the Black object in the Western museum. In Proverbs for Adwoa the artist uses the akua ma doll as self portrait. In Fetish #1-3 the mask used in the female clitoridectomy rites is paired with texts etched into copper plaques inscribed with the words Flesh, Blunt and Glass suggesting invasion of the body and incision to the psyche.