Queer Noise X Laundry Day
A Night of poetry and Music responding to and celebrating the work of artist Dee Light
Thursday 6 February
7–9pm
Goldsmiths Textile Collection
Join us for an evening of poetry and music responding to Laundry Day, an exhibition celebrating the work of the late artist and poet Dee Light, as part of LGBTQIA+ History Month.
Curated by Queer Noise, this special poetry night brings together live readings from Lalah-Simone Springer and Cora Dessalines, with music from Tall Child, creating space to reflect on themes of home, identity, belonging, and the domestic as a site of transformation.
About The Exhibition
The Goldsmiths Textile Collection and Every Mouth Needs Filling Presents
Laundry Day: Celebrating the work of Dee Light
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.
Dee 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 in this exhibition, 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
Performers
Lalah-Simone Springer
Lalah-Simone Springer is a working-class poet, creative health facilitator, musician, and speculative fiction writer (she/they). In 2023 Lalah’s debut poetry collection, An Aviary of Common Birds (Broken Sleep Books), was released alongside their debut album Cyclical Music. Collaborations as a performance artist have been staged at The Barbican, Whitechapel Gallery, the Southbank Centre and more.
Cora Dessalines
Cora Dessalines is an internationally-renowned afrofuturist poet, and model. Their creative practice spans storytelling and filmmaking, capturing themes of love, loss, and rage through a queer Black perspective. You can find their most recent work published in sweet-thang zine and You’re Never Too Much, a poetry anthology published by Pan Macmillan. Named a 2025 Trailblazer by Love Queers 100, Cora is an advocate for inclusive spaces in the creative industry.
Tall Child
Tall Child is the alias for Zha Gandhi, a South East London based musician of Nigerian/Indian heritage paving the way for black artists in the indie music scene. Tall Child takes inspiration from the likes of Mitski, Julia Jacklin, Solange and Alicia Keys, to create a beautifully intimate and authentic basis for their soundscape. Through brutally honest lyrics, they explore their experiences as a queer disabled POC in hopes of creating a space for those who empathise with having their differences being used against them.
This event offers an intimate, reflective response to Dee Light’s work, bringing poetry and sound into conversation with textile, memory, and lived experience. All are welcome.