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POP COLLABORATORS
Dr Roselind Sinclair
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POP COLLABORATOR

Roselind is collaborating with the POP team to creatively respond to the dataset of 200 years of clothing patents. She brings research interests in race, intellectual property and Jamaican women’s craft together with curation and installation experience to the project. Together we are drawing attention to innovative voices silenced, erased or overlooked in the data.

Roselind Sinclair is a designer, lecturer and researcher in the Design Department at Goldsmiths. Her work explores Caribbean women’s histories of art, design and material practice through the domestic space.

Her research is based on the notion of female ‘textile’ networks as a catalyst for social, and economic change. She uses life and oral stories and material practices to tell lesser-known stories; the textiles created by these networks embody both material culture and diasporic tales. It is these textiles and the clubs that evolved, that may provide new ways of thinking about ‘networks’ and their place in textile design and innovation, and the wider discourse of black aesthetics in the home and in fashion.

Roselind has worked with the V&A, the National Archives, and many community groups. Most recently she co-curated  the ‘Althea McNish: Colour is Mine’ exhibition at the William Morris Gallery, the first major retrospective on this design icon.