Overview

Through a focused analysis of work made from textiles, ceramics, wood, paper, metal, and glass, this book explores how contemporary artists, designers, and practitioners identifying as LGBTQ+ use a range of craft materials and processes to explore their identity and queerness. Queer Crafts provides a nuanced and timely study of the dynamic intersection of queerness and craft, examining a wide range of media – textiles, ceramics, wood, paper, metal, and glass. Daniel Fountain demonstrates how LGBTQ+ practitioners – including LJ Roberts, Paul Yore, Rose Schmits, Nicki Green, Hansel Tai, Affect Metals, Troy Montes-Michie, Antonius Tín-Bui, Raul De Lara, Nifemi Ogunro, Tim Tate, and Hamad Butt – use these materials as powerful vehicles for self-expression, community building, and social critique. Reframing craft through a queer and trans theoretical lens, the book analyzes how these practitioners reclaim histories, rewrite narratives, disrupt hierarchies, and craft their own worlds. A significant contribution to the field, Queer Crafts is an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners across a range of disciplines.

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This is a beautifully written, brilliantly original and thought-provoking monograph that gives full focus to the collision of queer and craft as conceptual tools in the contemporary art world * Joseph McBrinn, Reader in Irish Art and Design History, Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, Ireland * This book playfully highlights various craft techniques that illustrate the fluidity of queer aesthetics. It explores how artists embody histories and personal narratives, manipulating forms through limp wrists, firm fists, and askew perspectives within intricate and disorienting queer worlds. * Jade Yumang, Associate Professor in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA *

Author Information

Daniel Fountain is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, UK. They have published widely on gender, sexuality, contemporary art, and craft, including the edited collection Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain (2023). Daniel is also a practitioner and curator with international experience

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