Volume

A festival of sound and vision
Art Gallery of New South Wales
22 Sep – 8 Oct 2023

Ama Josephine Budge

Volume

A festival of sound and vision
Art Gallery of New South Wales
22 Sep – 8 Oct 2023

Ama Josephine Budge

A person with light brown skin and curly black ringlets sits leaning up against a piece of canvas tacked onto a wall.

Ama Josephine Budge, photo: Zachary Maxwell Stertz

Ama Josephine Budge is a British–Ghanaian speculative writer, artist, curator and pleasure activist whose praxis navigates queer explorations of race, art, ecology and feminism. Her installation, written and video art works have been commissioned, exhibited and published internationally. Budge is currently completing her PhD on Intimate ecologies: Queer speculations on pleasure, Blackness and decolonial aesthetics at Birkbeck University of London.

For Volume, Ama Josephine Budge has worked with Sam Smith to create a new commission for the Tank.