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Lynn Setterington, Senior Lecturer Textiles in Practice, Manchester Metropolitan University

Grenfell Tower anniversary: how a quilt in the making is a symbol of the community's love and quest for justice

Quilts are a repository of memory, personal and collective. The Conversation

Tuesday Greenidge is a multimedia artist based in North Kensington, London. When Grenfell tower caught alight on the night of June 14, 2017, her daughter was in the lift. She managed to escape. She came to her mother’s home to tell her Grenfell was on fire.

In the five years since, Greenidge has been working on a quilt in memory of the 72 people who lost their lives that night. As she explained in a recent BBC interview:

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