Lynn Setterington

is a major British textile artist known for her hand-stitched quilts and embroideries. Her research is situated at the intersection of craft and community, social engagement, design and activism, creating tactile social history documents with groups and communities to interrogate social injustices and celebrate the overlooked and every day. These sensory cloths provide soft, alternative flexible forms of commemoration, in contrast to the fixed, hard memorials, ubiquitous in many parks, city centres and stadiums. Setterington’s research draws on popular culture, folk and textile history and she has undertaken many large-scale commissions and partnerships with underserved communities and museums in the UK, India, Bangladesh, Brazil and US. Her solo and shared quilts and embroideries are in private and public collections including the V&A, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Gallery Oldham, Touchstones, Rochdale, Shipley Art Gallery, the Quilters Guild, the Terrance Higgins Trust, Denver Museum of Art and the International Quilt Museum in the US. Setterington was born in Yorkshire and studied textiles at Goldsmiths College. Her PhD with at the University for the Creative Arts utilised her longstanding experience to examine the tensions and hidden values in shared embroidery practice. She has worked at MMU for over thirty years and is a trustee for the creative charity, Venture Arts, a Fellow of the Quilt Museum, University of Nebraska, member of the 62 Group of textile artists, Rogue Studios, Manchester and the Textile Society (UK). www.lynnsetterington.co.uk

Mary Schoeser is an internationally respected textile and wallpaper historian who has published and curated widely. She has collaborated with many museums over her 40 year career, including the Fashion Textile Museum, London; the V&A – where she is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow – and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.