Yashka Moore
Yashka Moore FRSA is a writer and designer. Her artistic work explores how everyday objects shape our minds, culture and society. She studied and then taught philosophy and psychology and has spoken on her research at Central St Martins, the Wellcome Collection Museum, MoMA, HowTheLightGetsIn and LSE’s Forum for Philosophy.
Her libretti (text for operatic work) have been performed at venues including Wigmore Hall. Her 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. Her modular designs are shown (relatively) annually at London Fashion Week and have been presented at Paris Fashion Week, Pitti Uomo, MoMA Tbilisi and Thomas Erber’s Cabinet de Curiosities in New York, worn by Leonard Cohen and stocked internationally.
Yashka is a regular guest-speaker at CAMPerVAN and Otamere Guobadia’s queer writers’ salons and hosts her own Lost Histories and Queer Mythologies salons at venues including the RSA, Sam’s Café and Shoreditch House. She lives in north London with her wife.
Yashka is now writing her first book, a cultural history of locks and keys, for Particular / Penguin Random House.