Yashka Moore's writing and design explore the relationships between matter, craft, culture and society.
Her work involves
Hands-on research into craft & industrial processes such as weaving, carving, casting & forging...
Designing & making objects
Writing & speaking
Yashka's Questions
Do the Clothes Maketh the Human? Panelist with Dr Shahidha Bari, Prof Heather Widdows and Dr Sarah Fine
Forum For Philosophy Podcast. Full episode here.
I’ve shown some of this work at London Fashion Week, Pitti Uomo and MoMA Tbilisi and have spoken on my thinking about design at Wellcome Collection Museum, Central St Martins and LSE’s Forum for Philosophy.
Contents:
Cotton dress with bronze buttons
Two-piece quilted jacket
Quilted trousers
Cotton shirt with bronze buttons
Trousersuit
Fingertrap trousers
Two-piece trousers
Iron and porcelain 'bones' clothes hanger for trousers, skirts, shorts. 450 g.
Iron and porcelain 'beads' clothes hanger for coats, jackets, shirts, dresses, jumpers. 700 g.
All made in England.
Photography, thanks to Daniel Archer.
Yashka writes and designs. Her work explores how everyday objects shape our minds, culture and society and she’s spoken on her thinking at Central St Martins, the Wellcome Collection Museum, MoMA, The RSA, HowTheLightGetsIn and LSE’s Forum for Philosophy.
Yashka’s modular designs have been presented at London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, Pitti Uomo, MoMA Tbilisi and Thomas Erber’s Cabinet de Curiosities in New York, worn by Leonard Cohen and stocked internationally.
Her libretti (text for operatic work) have been performed at venues including Wigmore Hall. Yashka’s chamber opera Genizah premiered at Milton Court Studio Theatre in July 2019 in association with the Guildhall School for Music & Drama and the Royal Opera House, with music by Richard Melkonian. Yashka also holds Lost Histories and Queer Mythologies salons. Email her for an invite.
Literary agent: Andrew Gordon @David Higham Associates