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My doctoral research project, The Art of the Ordinary and the Pleasure of the Necessary: Quiltmaking in South Manchester, explores the skilled quiltmaking community in the Northwest of England. I examine themes of creativity, personal collections, and material memories. The project positions quiltmaking as a process that forms tangible biographies through the relationship between maker and material. Conducting fieldwork within Gleneagles Ps and Qs and Montague Patchers, two quilting groups that archive decades of craft knowledge and experience among their members, I investigate the storytelling that emanates from the communal practice of stitching, showing and touching quilts. |
The Art of the Ordinary and the Pleasure of the Necessary: Quiltmaking in South Manchester
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Research Profile: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/lydia-donohue
