Lynn Setterington is a major British textile artist known for her hand-stitched quilts and embroideries. Her research is situated at the intersection of craft and community, social engagement, design and activism, creating tactile social history documents with groups and communities to interrogate social injustices and celebrate the overlooked and everyday. These sensory cloths provide soft, alternative flexible forms of commemoration, in contrast to the fixed, hard memorials, ubiquitous in many parks, city centres and stadiums.
Setterington’s research draws on popular culture, folk and textile history and she has undertaken many large-scale commissions and partnerships with underserved communities and museums in the UK, India, Bangladesh, Brazil and US.