Laundry Day

Celebrate the work of Dee Light with the Goldsmiths Textile Collection and Every Mouth Needs Filling

Artist and poet Dee Light began creating feltwork embroideries while studying for a BA in Textiles at Goldsmiths in the 1980s. Her work is playful and surprising, transforming the domestic sphere through a distinctive and imaginative lens.

Light wrote about living between worlds, describing a sense of not fully belonging to either the Black or white communities around her. Raised across mixed cultures, and identifying as queer and disabled, her experiences of mental health and her search for belonging are woven throughout her artworks and poetry. The artworks displayed, created while she was a student, form a softer world in which the inanimate is brought to life and the familiar is rendered strange.

Exhibition open
29 January - 6 February 2026
Mon-Fri 1 - 4pm

Programme Events

30 January, 6:30 - 8pm
Panel Discussion

6 February, 6:30 - 9pm
Queer Noise X Laundry Day

Join us for an evening of poetry and music responding to Laundry Day, an exhibition celebrating the work of the late artist and poet Dee Light, as part of LGBTQIA+ History Month.

Curated by Queer Noise, this special poetry night brings together live readings from Lalah-Simone Springer and Cora Dessalines, with music from Tall Child, creating space to reflect on themes of home, identity, belonging, and the domestic as a site of transformation.

Laundry Day

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