C J Reay quilted so hard all summer that now he needs glasses. “After four months of doing it, I found myself getting really bad headaches towards the end, so I had an eye test,” says Reay. “I totally ruined my summer!”

If that sounds extreme, he had given himself a relatively extreme task: to produce 14 of his Anarchist Prayer Quilts, adapting the slogan-forward graphic poster work that has become his calling card as Black Lodge Press to the medium of felt and applique.

If you’ve so much as walked past a DIY space or left-leaning festival or event in the UK in recent years, you will have clocked Reay’s style. Centred around the old Friz Quadrata typeface made famous by Black Flag , his prints proclaim sentiments such as, “Queer utopias are not fantasies / Queer utopias are necessities!” or “No great men!…