Maud Sulter (1960–2008) was an award-winning artist and writer of Ghanaian and Scottish heritage. She was born in Glasgow, lived in England for several years and returned to Scotland for the new century. She exhibited widely in Britain, Europe and North America and represented Britain at the first Johannesburg Biennale in 1995. Her art is found in the National Galleries of Scotland, City Art Centre Edinburgh, the Scottish Parliament, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Arts Council Collection, British Council Collection, the National Portrait Gallery, New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, and several other public and private collections.

As an artist, Maud Sulter worked in several media, primarily photography and photo-montage. Her creative project was, she said, “to put black women back in the centre of the frame - both literally within the photographic image, but also within the cultural institutions where our work operates”. Her last major series, Les Bijoux (2002) marked the culmination of a long-standing preoccupation with Jeanne Duval, best known as muse and model for Charles Baudelaire. In her art and writing Sulter investigated the presence and absence of black women in history and the transnational and transatlantic connections between Africa and Europe. She published several collections of poetry and her pioneering edited collection Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen’s Creativity (1990).  She was awarded an MA in 1990 (Derby School of Art, now University of Derby).  A cultural historian, gallerist, curator and publisher, she also taught at several universities.  Maud Sulter died in 2008, leaving a substantial body of work in art and writing.