Laura Moseley is the Assistant Curator of the Women’s Art Collection and the Founder of Common Threads Press.
Laura has a BA and MA in History of Art, specialising in historical and contemporary craft practices, and has worked freelance with arts and cultural organisations including the Association for Art History, the Royal School of Needlework and Norwich Castle Museum on projects related to art and craft history and its intersections with community and activism.
Currently based in Cambridge, Laura gives talks and works on projects around visual art, craft with a particular interest in textiles and/or queerness.
Images: Aaron McIntosh
Queer Needlework Practices of Past and Present
RECENT EVENT
Royal School of Needlework Live Online Talk
Wednesday 7 February 2024, 7pm
In this talk, craft researcher and founder of Common Threads Press, Laura Moseley, will map the different articulations of queer identity in needlework practices since the mid-20th century. By analysing fabric, colour, technique and processes of making, Laura will look at the different ways in which queer artists have deployed embroidery and quilting in their work.
Departing from the work of second-wave feminists that worked to reinstate needlework as an emblem of ‘women’s work’, Laura will discuss how textile crafts have since become a central focus for queer artists working with similar themes of inheritance, identity and memory.
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