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aweys gaun
Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie
Many Studios
Installation view (all), aweys gaun, Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie, Many Studios, 2026
aweys gaun
Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie
Many Studios
05.06–21.06.2026
Part of Glasgow International 2026
aweys gaun is the inaugural Scotland solo exhibition by Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie in tandem with Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art. The exhibition will be hosted at Many Studios in Glasgow from Friday 5th June to Sunday 21st June 2026.
Propelled by pleasure, curiosity, and ancestral rhythms, aweys gaun honours the longstanding “hereness” of Black life in Scotland, calling and responding to, swaying with, the Black Atlantic hum. aweys gaun portals to a dream that drenches over and seeps through the stories of Western modernity, specifically the chapters leading up and dedicated to an enlightened Caledonia. Through aweys gaun, Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie presents a series of ceramic panels, vessels and works on paper along with an audio work made in collaboration with broadcaster, artist, and DJ Ashley Holmes and a newly commissioned text from curator, artist, and writer Żżo Charlery.
aweys gaun takes on a new shape from collaborative, curatorial research project Black Waters: Inference to The Veil in collaboration with Żżo Charlery as part of the Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship 2025 at The Glasgow School of Art, Reid Gallery. Black Waters: Inference to The Veil draws on Black feminist ideologies, staging Glasgow as the centre from which to perceive the scale and afterlives of colonialism, and the precise, opaque, continuously emergent ways Black life subsists and composes. The Fellowship culminated in an exhibition featuring works from Lubaina Himid, Barbara Walker, Yinka Shonibare, Camara Taylor and more.
Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie is a Glasgow-based,multidisciplinary artist who engages with clay and image (re)production. Frameworks from Black Feminism, geographies, and studies, and African cosmologies underpin their approach to narrative building and dismantling, listening and questioning, and exercising of liberatory practices. They are currently in residency at Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Their work has been exhibited at the Reid Gallery, Glasgow, London College of Fashion, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, and Chelsea Space, London. Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie’s work is held in several public collections across the UK, including Glasgow Museums, The Hepworth Wakefield, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery and Ulster Museum. aweys gaun is produced by Emmanuella Damptey and supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.