Sarah-Joy Ford

Sarah-Joy Ford is an Artist, PGR and Associate Lecturer at Manchester School of Art. Exhibitions include Banner Culture, British Textile Biennale (Blackburn) and Weaving Europe: The World as Mediation, Shelly Residence (Paphos). Funded projects include: The Guild, Cut Cloth: Contemporary Textiles and Feminism and Hard Craft. Her work has been commissioned by The Yorkshire Year of the Textiles, Processions: a hundred years of suffrage and Beyond the Binary at The Pitt Rivers Museum. She is the recipient of a NWCDTP Award for her PhD. She is co-director of the Queer Research Network Manchester and a member of Proximity Collective. Her current work explores quilt making as an affective methodology for making visible and re-visioning lesbian archival material in British feminist archives and personal collections. Through the embodied materiality of textiles and an affinity with the domestic, the works slip between public and private moments, protest and parade, desire and loss.

UKNA Projects:

Blackpool Weekender: The Coast is Queer