Laundry Day

Dee Light

Exhibition

29 Jan - 6 Feb 2026

1 - 4pm

Mon - Fri

Programme Events

Panel Discussion

30 Jan, 6:30 - 8pm

Queer Noise Performances

6 Feb, 6:30 - 9pm

Dee Light, Portrait with friends, Laundry Day, Exhibition, 2026. Constance Howard Gallery, In Partnership with Goldsmiths Textile Collection.

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

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.