Explore Further – Maud Sulter: Portraits of a Family Tree

For people who would like to explore further the issues tackled by Maud Sulter’s work, we have prepared a bibliography, which has guided us in our preparation for this intervention. Below, you can find a brief selection of resources on different subjects: intersectionality, photography, and Sulter’s influences.

Cherry, Deborah (1998). ‘Troubling Presence: Body, Sound and Space in Installation Art of the mid-1990s.’ RACAR: Revue d’art canadienne/Canadian Art Review  25, no. 1/2, pp. 12–30. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42630590.
Cherry, Deborah (2013). ‘Image-Making with Jeanne Duval in Mind: Photoworks by Maud Sulter, 1989–2002.’ In Women, the Arts and Globalization: Eccentric Experience, edited by Marsha Meskimmon and Dorothy Price. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Cherry, Deborah (2015). Maud Sulter: Passion. London: Altitude Editions, pp. 145–68.
Himid, Lubaina (2013). ‘Exhibiting Black Women’s Art in the 1980s.’ In Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions, edited by Angela Dimitrakaki and Lara Perry. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 84–9.
Mabon, Jim (1998). ‘Europe’s African Heritage in the Creative Work of Maud Sulter.’ Research in African Literatures  29, no. 4, pp. 149–55. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=a9h&AN=1178905&site=eds-live.
Thompson, Susannah (2021). Passionate and Political: Centring Black Women in Maud Sulter’s « Zabat » | Art UK. https://artuk.org/discover/stories/passionate-and-political-centring-black-women-in-maud-sulters-zabat.

Sulter, Maud (1989). Zabat: Poetics of a Family Tree; Poems, 1986-1989. Hebden Bridge: Urban Fox.
Sulter, Maud, ed (1990). Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen’s Creativity. Hebden Bridge: Urban Fox.
Sulter, Maud (1991). Echo : works by women artists 1850-1940 [exhibition Tate Gallery, Liverpool 23 August – 29 September 1991]. Liverpool : Tate Gallery.
Sulter, Maud (1991). ‘Passion: Blackwomen’s Creativity’. Interview by Ardentia Verba. Spare Rib, 8. 220 (February), pp. 6–8.
Sulter, Maud (2005). Sekhmet: A Decade Or So of Poems. Dumfries and Galloway Cultural Services.
Sulter, Maud (2021). ‘Call and Response’ (first published in Feminist Arts News, 1998), reprinted in ART HISTORY 44 (3): 599–602. doi:10.1111/1467-8365.12583.

Cliff, M. (1990). ‘Object into Subject: Some Thoughts on the Work of Black Women Artists’ In Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color. Ed. Gloria Anzaldua. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, pp. 271-90. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=edb&AN=153027770&site=eds-live.
Lorde, Audre (2007). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Berkeley: Crossing Press.
Smith, B. ed. (1983). Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.
Walker, A. (1985). The Color Purple, first published 1982. New York: Pocket Books. Simon & Schuster.

Kingsley, H. & Riopelle, C. (2012). Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present. London: National Gallery.
Munro S., Scott A. et al. (2017). Frank Raffles: Observing Women at Work. Glasgow: the Glasgow School of Arts.
Normand, T. (2007). Scottish photography: a history. Edinburgh: Luath.
Plisnier, V. (2012). Le primitivisme dans la photographie : L’impact des arts extra-européens sur la modernité photographique de 1918 à nos jours. Paris: Trocadéro.

Aikens, Nick, and Elizabeth Robles, eds (2019). The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain. Berlin and Eindhoven: Sternberg Press and Van Abbemuseum.
Bernier, Celeste-Marie (2018). Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965-2015. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
Chambers, Eddie (2014). Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s London: I. B. Tauris.
Donnell A. ed (2013). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.
Doy, G. (2000). Black Visual Culture, Modernity and Postmodernity. London: UB Taurus.
Grant, Catherine (2019). ‘A Letter Sent, Waiting to Be Received: Queer Correspondence, Feminism and Black British Art.’ Women: A Cultural Review 30, no. 3, pp. 297–318. DOI 10.1080/09574042.2019.1658510.
Grewal, S., Jackie Kay, Liliane Landor, Gail Lewis, and Pratibha Parmar, eds (1987). Charting the Journey: An Anthology of Black and Third World Women’s Writing. London: Sheba Feminist Press, 1987.
Himid, L. (2011). Thin Black Line(s). London: Tate Britain.
Boyce, S. and Dorothy Price, eds. (2021) ‘Special Issue: Rethinking Black Artists and Modernism,’ ART HISTORY 44, no. 3: 456-675.

Goh, Katie (2019). ‘Why museums need to decolonise their collections’. The Skinny: https://www.theskinny.co.uk/sexuality/deviance/why-museums-need-to-decolonise-their-collections
Grant, Catherine, & Dorothy Price. ‘Decolonizing Art History.’ Special issue of ART HISTORY 43, no. 1, pp. 8-66. DOI 10.1111/1467-8365.12490.
Mignolo, Walter D., & Catherine E. Walsh (2018). On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Schmidt-Linsenhoff, V. (2009) ‘On and Beyond the Colour Line: Afterimages of Old and New Slavery in Contemporary Art’. In Haehnel, B. & Ulz, M., eds. Slavery in Art and Literature: Approaches to Trauma, Memory and Visuality. Berlin: Frank & Timme.
Thompson, B., Amadiume, I. et al. (2008) Black Womanhood: Images, Icons and Ideologies of the African Body. Dartmouth: Hood Museum.
Wisker, G. (2006) Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Arana, R.V. & Ramey, L. (2004). Black British Women’s Writing. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Beam J. ed (1986). In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology. Boston: Alyson Publications.
Collins, P.H., and S. Bilge. Intersectionality. Chichester: Polity, 2016.
Collins, P.H.. Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory. Duke University Press, 2019.
Grant, C. (2019). ‘A Letter Sent, Waiting to Be Received: Queer Correspondence, Feminism and Black British Art.’ Women: A Cultural Review 30, no. 3, pp. 297–318. DOI 10.1080/09574042.2019.1658510.
Lorde, A. (2007). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Berkeley: Crossing Press
Smith, B. ed. (1983). Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.

Akala (2019). Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire. London: Two Roads.
Hunt, Kenya (2020). Girl: Essays on Black Womanhood. Glagsow: HarperCollins.
Olusoga, David (2016). Black and British: A Forgotten History. New York: Pan Macmillan.