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1 Walthamstow Football Club home shirt with ‘Yare’ design, 2023\"stylishSam Nicklin<\/p>\n

“We have some glorious examples of William Morris pieces in the V&A collection. Mark Clack, founder of the Walthamstow artist collective Wood Street Walls, initiated an amazing collaboration between the east London borough\u2019s football club and the William Morris Gallery to design a new team kit that adapts John Henry Dearle\u2019s 1892 Yare for Morris & Co. <\/p>\n

As a lifelong supporter of another north-London team, it slightly galls me to say that this the only football shirt that I have ever coveted. I think it\u2019s brilliant that revenue from its sales is going towards setting up a women\u2019s team at the club.”<\/p>\n

2Golden Harvest furnishing fabric, 1959, Althea McNish\/Hull Traders\"furnishingAmelia Calver<\/p>\n

“The trailblazer Althea McNish created the print for Golden Harvest in her Tottenham studio, drawing on her African Caribbean heritage and signature vibrant use of colour and pattern for the design, which became a bestseller. We\u2019ve included a sample of it alongside groundbreaking ballet costumes by Leigh Bowery, opera set designs by Derek Jarman and furniture by Eileen Gray in a section called \u2018Breaking Boundaries\u2019. Here, we celebrate the creatives who have pushed their disciplines in new directions, often dismantling barriers of gender, race and class.”<\/p>\n

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3Urania (portrait of Lubaina Himid), from the series \u2018Zabat\u2019, 1989, Maud Sulter\"photographuraniaJaron James<\/p>\n

“The Ghanian Scottish photographer Maud Sulter has said of her creative practice: \u2018It\u2019s important for me as an individual, and obviously as a Black woman artist, to put Black women back in the centre of the frame.\u2019 In this striking portrait of Lubaina Himid, Sulter challenged exclusions and colonial representations of Black women in European art histories. The golden frame and staging echo grand historic European portraits, while Himid wears a West African \u00e0d\u00ecr\u1eb9 (tied and dyed) cloth garment. So many things to love in a single work.”<\/p>\n

4Captain Hook armchair from the series \u2018If Chairs Could Talk\u2019, 2015, Yinka Ilori\"aSam Nicklin<\/p>\n

“This chair by the lovely Yinka Ilori is a tribute to one of his London school friends and explores a Nigerian Yoruba parable about destiny and not judging others. The coat hanger symbolises his friend\u2019s struggles of being \u2018left to hang\u2019 when young, before thankfully overcoming neglect to turn their life around \u2013 I find both this, and the colours and fabrics Ilori has used, immensely uplifting.”<\/p>\n

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5Gown, 1744; silk design by Anna Maria Garthwaite\"cis:circ.85Sarah Duncan<\/p>\n

“In 1730, the Lincolnshire-born textile designer Anna Maria Garthwaite moved to the capital to establish herself in the Spitalfields silk-weaving district. She was self-taught and one of a few women designers to become commercially successful in an industry dominated by men. I think this gown is exquisite. Her decorative pattern pushed aesthetic conventions of the time away from heavy, abstract florals to more realistic flowers \u2013 she was a true pioneer. East London has continued to attract generations of fashion innovators over centuries and more than 250 years later, it would become the location of my own late brother [Joe]\u2019s first significant studio \u2013 and so it remains a place that is close to my heart.” <\/p>\n

6 Reunion VI: Underneath the Surface (2021\u201322) by Bisila Noha\"ceramicSam Nicklin<\/p>\n

“I adore ceramics and have always made close attachments to the creators that I have worked with. These two beautiful new acquisitions by Bisila Noha, who\u2019s based locally, celebrate the \u2018un-named women of clay\u2019 traditionally overlooked in histories of ceramic art. Inspired by the Ivorian potter Kouame Kakah\u00e1\u2019s work, the shapes of these vessels suggest bodies.”<\/p>\n

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