☝️📷: self-portrait of Maud Sulter as Jeanne Duval, the mistress of Charles Baudelaire, representing Calliope. From “Zabat”, a series of portraits of creative black women by Sulter, showing each woman as one of the 9 Muses. The series is held by the V&A 2/8 collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O134377...
'Calliope', dye destruction print, Zabat series, Maud Sulter, 1989
Maud Sulter was born in Glasgow, of Scots & Ghanaian descent: her poem “Circa 1930” argues that these two cultures “are not as disparate as they might / at first seem. Clan-based societies / With long memories and global diasporas.” 3/8 www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/maud-su...
Born in Glasgow of Scots and Ghanaian descent, Maud Sulter was a visual artist, writer, playwright and cultural historian. ‘As a Blackwoman’, the title of her first volume of poems, remained the persp...