Sarah-Joy’s patchwork quilt re-imagines anecdotes and symbols from the Papers of Vera (Jack) Holme held at The Women’s Library Archives.
Sarah-Joy Ford
Sarah-Joy Ford is an Artist, Post-Graduate Researcher and Associate Lecturer at the Manchester School of Art. Ford works with textiles to explore the complexities and pleasures of queer communities, histories and archives. Her practice sits at intersection of digital and traditional: using strategies of quilting, digital embroidery, digital print, appliqué and hand embellishment. Her work claims a femme aesthetic, indulging in shades of pinks, pastel hues, satins, sequins and decadent surface embellishment. Working with decorative textiles situates Sarah-Joy’s practice within histories of gendered marginalisation, and a lineage of artists reclaiming cloth as a powerful language for disrupting discrimination, erasure and heteropatriarchy.
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