LYDIA DONAHUE
she/her
Manchester, UK
Lydia is a Manchester-based visual anthropologist and textile artist specializing in craft communities and material culture. Lydia sees her work as a love letter to the long-stitched biography of lives spent bent over cloth, revering their experience whilst reimagining and interlacing her own. Working in the medium of quilting and patchwork, she combines this heritage craft with the alternative photographic process of cyanotype to shape textile pieces that reflect her research on the often overlooked and under-appreciated world of women’s work. Accompanying the material, Lydia threads audio-visual methods of photo essays and exploratory soundwalks to illuminate the values, relationships, memories and meaning hidden and observed in the material. Lydia endeavours to weave together stitching and writing, working with dyeing and print methods to produce textiles that communicate meaning through the material.
lydiadonohue.co.uk
@lydiadonohueart
Featured in AO:04. CRAFT WORKS
“Piece II”