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My current research, The Art of the Ordinary and the Pleasure of the Necessary: Quiltmaking in South Manchester, ethnographically explores the skilled community of quiltmakers in the Northwest of England, following the themes of creativity, personal collections and material memories. This project untangles the cat’s cradle of lines that lattice together myths, textiles and the domestic space and considers quiltmaking as a relationship between material and maker that produces tangible biographies. 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. A theme of storytelling, imaginatively composing narratives of everyday lives lived and retold through the material, emerges through engaging in object biographies. This project works to unpick the network between crafters, their tools of making and their objects of creation. |
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
