Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity

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Through a focused analysis of work made from textile, ceramic, metal, paper, wood and glass, this book explores how contemporary craftspeople, artists and other creatives identifying as LGBTQ+ use a range of craft materials and processes to explore their identity and queerness.

Queer Crafts demonstrates how methods of crafting offer particularly fertile ground for exploring themes of queerness because of their longstanding gendered associations, physical malleability, metaphorical capaciousness and crafts historic position as an amateur form of making. International case studies include the work of well-known and emerging creatives such as Athi-Patra Ruga, LJ Roberts, Nicki Green, Rose Schmits, Khairullah Rahim, Hansel Tai, Troy Michie, Antonius Bui, Raul De Lara, Caroline Woolard, Tim Tate and Hamad Butt. Featuring interviews and oral histories, and richly illustrated throughout with an array of works which refuse binaries and the boundaries of traditional craft practices, contemporary art and design, this book sheds an important light on contemporary LGBTQ+ crafting.

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Daniel Fountain is an artist, curator and Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published widely on themes of queer craft and his work includes the edited collection of essays, Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Britain (2022).