Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie

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.

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.