Sarah-Joy Ford – Dykeland: Volume 1
Dykeland: Volume 1 by Sarah-Joy Ford
Saturday 7th June 2025 – Sunday 21st September 2025
at the Whitaker Museum
Haslingden Road, Rossendale, England BB4 6RE, United Kingdom
Dykeland: Volume 1 presents a body of work created by the artist Sarah-Joy Ford, that investigates the history of dyke and lesbian lands in the UK through textile practice. These works form an archive of an exploration of dyke, lesbian, and queer relationships to land, placemaking, rurality, and ecological activism. Through quilting, fragments of historical texts and archival material are drawn into intimate relationships with memory, gossip and pure lesbian feminist fantasy.
About Sarah-Joy Ford
Sarah-Joy Ford is a graduate of University of Leeds (BA Fine Art) and Manchester School of Art (MA Textile Practice and PhD, Fine Art & Design). She is queer artist and independent scholar working with textiles and quilting to explore lesbian lives and herstories. Solo exhibitions include Rabbit at Bury Art Museum 2024, HARE at Bobinska Brownlee Gallery 2023 (London), Looking for Lesbians at ONE Gallery 2022 (Los Angeles), Beloved at Plas Newydd Historic House and Gardens 2022 (Llangollen) and Archives and Amazons: A Quilters Guide to the Lesbian Archive 2021 at HOME (Manchester). Her solo show Dykeland: Volume 1 at The Whitaker Museum (UK) through 21 September 2025.
Related Links
Sarah-Joy Ford and Veronica Slater: Reflecting on Queer Feminisms and Modernism
RABBIT x Sarah-Joy Ford at Bury Art Museum (2024)