Ama Josephine Budge

Speculative writer, Artist, Curator and Pleasure activist

Ama Josephine Budge is a British-Ghanaian speculative writer, artist, curator and pleasure activist whose praxis navigates intimate explorations of race, art, ecology and feminism, working to catalyse social justice, environmental evolutions and troublesomely queered identities. Ama is the recipient of the 2020 Local, International and Planetary Fictions Fellowship with Curatorial Frame (Helsinki) and EVA International (Limerick), and will be researching the topic Pleasurable Ecologies – Formations of Care: Curation as Future-building. Ama is also a member of Queer Ecologies 2020 and initiator of the Apocalypse Reading Room project. Her visual art and written work have been commissioned, exhibited and published internationally including with Jupiter Artland, Casco Art Institute, the Architectural Review, the Feminist Review, Aperture, Whitechapel Gallery, Duke University Press and more.

www.amajosephine.me

Photo: Molly Trerotola
Ama Josephine Budge, a brown-skinned person with long black braided hair stands in front of a yellow background looking into the camera. Framed from the chest up, Budge is wearing a white blouse, a round nose ring, and earrings.

Projects

  1. This text in three parts offers a series of reflections by artist Ama Josephine Budge, and assistant producer Phoebe Beckett Chingono, exploring the still-ongoing process of Acts of Love, a Punos commission. Acts of Love, created by Ama (2021-present), consists of a growing collection of email correspondences from Black artists in Europe to art institutions and organisations regarding their care, safety, wellbeing, pay and equal working conditions. This is the first part of the text.

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    A photograpgh of three people wearing white, lying on a green patch of grass, and holding hands. Three hands touching, all different shades of brown, are in the center of the image.

  2. This is the second part of a text in three parts that offers a series of reflections by artist Ama Josephine Budge, and assistant producer Phoebe Beckett Chingono, exploring the still-ongoing process of Acts of Love, a Punos commission. Acts of Love, created by Ama (2021-present), consists of a growing collection of email correspondences from Black artists in Europe to art institutions and organisations regarding their care, safety, wellbeing, pay and equal working conditions.

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