In this episode, Matt and Eilidh talk to Professor Susannah Thompson, an art historian, writer, and curator. Thompson is the Head of Doctoral Studies and Professor of Contemporary Art and Criticism at Glasgow School of Art. Thompson has previously worked on an exhibition entitled ‘Speak English’ by Lubaina Himid and Maud Sulter, as an exhibitions assistant at the same institution in 2002.
They reflect on the series of works by Maud Sulter titled 'Significant Others', which will be rotated in the Wardlaw Museum over the course of the next two years. Thompson details the influences on Sulter's work, her tireless activist work and how her work still holds contemporary resonance today.
