Laundry Day
The Constance Howard Gallery
29 Jan - 6 Feb 2026
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. Her artworks here, created
while she was a student, form a softer world in which the inanimate is brought to life and the familiar is rendered strange.
Text by Ruby Hodgson, Curator of Goldsmiths Textile Collection
About
The Textile Collection & Constance Howard Gallery is a centre dedicated to multidisciplinary textiles research, and is home to the Goldsmiths Textile Collection.
The Collection, founded in the 1980s by Constance Howard and Audrey Walker, comprises textile art, embroidery and dress from all continents. Our global collection is complemented with a variety of teaching materials and archives, including technical and experimental samples and Constance Howard's own teaching archive.
Dates and Times
29 January - 6 February 2026
Mon-Fri 1 - 4pm
Programme Events
30 January, 6:30 - 8pm
6 February, 6:30 - 9pm
Location
The Constance Howard Gallery,
Lower Floor, Deptford Town Hall,
SE14 6NW
