Through a focused analysis of work made from textile ceramic metal paper wood and glass
this book explores how contemporary craftspeople artists and other creatives identifying as
LGBTQ+ use a range of craft materials and processes to explore their identity and queerness.
Queer Crafts demonstrates how methods of crafting offer particularly fertile ground for
exploring themes of queerness because of their longstanding gendered associations physical
malleability metaphorical capaciousness and craft's historic position as an 'amateur' form of
making. International case studies include the work of well-known and emerging creatives such
as Athi-Patra Ruga LJ Roberts Nicki Green Rose Schmits Khairullah Rahim Hansel Tai Troy
Michie Antonius Bui Raul De Lara Caroline Woolard Tim Tate and Hamad Butt. Featuring
interviews and oral histories and richly illustrated throughout with an array of works which
refuse binaries and the boundaries of traditional craft practices contemporary art and design
this book sheds an important light on contemporary LGBTQ+ crafting.
