Connecting Threads: Tactile Social History with Lynn Setterington

Join us on 23rd April, 6.30pm - 8.30pm for a talk with textile artist Lynn Setterington who will share her work featured in her book Connecting Threads, a collection of twelve textile projects created between 1981 and 2024. Each project acts as a social history document, telling untold stories and highlighting overlooked people, histories, and places through stitch. 

The talk will also focus on several key projects from the book and her upcoming exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, opening on 28th March. Lynn will discuss how her work has evolved over the last 40 years, from small hand-stitched embroideries to large-scale community projects that engage hundreds of people.

Lynn will also touch on her PhD research at the University for the Creative Arts and her 30-year career as a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Her quilts and cloths are held in major public collections such as the V&A, Crafts Council, IQSC, and Whitworth Art Gallery. Born in Yorkshire, Lynn trained at York College of Arts & Technology and Goldsmiths College, London, and has been a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University since 1992.