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Join The London Library’s regular Art/Lit Salon for chat, discussion, drinks and thought-provocation, exploring art, literature and where the two forms collide. This time, they are joining forces with London Craft Week for a discussion about how textile art and craft intersects with cultural identity.

Salon host, writer/artist/curator Dominique Heyse-Moore is joined by artist and writer Himali Singh Soin and others to discuss what textiles and textile art can tell us about ourselves and the world we live in. In the spirit of the salon, there is time for drinks and conversation before and after the talk.

Himali Soin Singh is a writer and artist based between London and Delhi. She works across text, performance and moving image, using metaphors from outer space and the natural environment to construct imaginary cosmologies and think through ecological loss and the loss of home, seeking shelter somewhere in the radicality of love. Her speculations are performed in audio-visual, immersive environments.

Dominique Heyse-Moore is a writer, artist and senior curator of British Contemporary Art at Tate Britain. She was on The London Library Emerging Writers Programme 21/22, where she worked on a triptych of graphic memoirs exploring the legacy of empire and her own family’s heritage, which spans Africa, China, the Caribbean, Australia and the Pacific Islands.