Book Club: Queer Crafts: A Conversation with Dr Daniel Fountain

Join Crafts Council for an online talk, in conversation with Dr Daniel Fountain, artist, curator, researcher, and author of the new publication Queer Crafts: Materiality, Identity, Contemporary Practice. Through a focused analysis of work made from textiles, ceramics, wood, paper, metal, and glass, this book explores how contemporary artists, designers, and practitioners identifying as LGBTQ+ use a range of craft materials and processes to explore their identity and queerness. Reframing craft through a queer and trans theoretical lens, Fountain analyses how practitioners reclaim histories, rewrite narratives, disrupt hierarchies, and craft their own worlds.

Dr Daniel Fountain is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, UK. They are a practitioner, curator, and scholar whose work explores the intersections between LGBTQ+ art, craft, and visual culture. Fountain is the editor of Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain (2023) and the author of Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026).