Courtesty OF collective, 2025

Collage woRKS

•LYDIA DONOHUE• by Courtesy of Collective

Lydia merges craft, technology, and critical theory into speculative works shaped by smart textiles, ecological storytelling, and fibre-based traditions.

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THREAD & CANVAS
Silo gallery, new york, NOVEMBER 2024
Renwick Street, new york, december 2024

ACCESSIBLE OBJECTS: CRAFT WORKS, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2024

Blueprint: fieldwork in textiles, Manchester, aPRIL 2024

Blueprint investigates the quilt as a materialisation of women’s time into stitches, squares and cloth. It contemplates what it means to bring something into being, to document experience through handmade objects and to work collaboratively. This exhibition unpicks the network between crafters, their tools of making and their objects of creation to examine the potency of quiltmaking and their communities as a critical area of visual anthropology research. Threading together anthropology and craft, my quilted work, guided by the expert craftswomen within Manchester’s quilting circles, uses textiles to explore the often overlooked and underappreciated world of women’s work, illuminating the values, relationships, memories and meaning hidden and observed in the material.
Fin De Siecle, RAG GALLERY, mANCHESTER, 2022
Cyanotype on glass and tile for an exhibition
on the theme urban decay.

tHE SKEIN HER VERY SKIN, Manchester, 2019
The Skein her Very Skin calls for a reawakened
understanding of quilts as textile testaments of
women's lives, examining their value as fabric biographies imprinted with the life narrative of their maker.

Made in collaboration with Gleneagles Ps and Qs.