An immersive space created by Tyreis Holder and local communities, inspired by the five senses and Black British Caribbean heritage.
Over five days Holder has collaborated with visitors and local groups of all ages to create a space for rest and conversation using textiles and making, that draws inspiration from familial spaces of domesticity and ancestral healing.
With thanks to all our visitors who have contributed to making this space, including local schools and our community partner Kowetha.
The space was created as part of our Teylu Visiting Artist programme, which invites a contemporary artist to Tate St Ives to co-create an immersive and participatory large-scale artwork with the community in our Foyle Studio.
Tyreis Holder is an artist, poet, visual storyteller and community arts practitioner from South London, with heritage from Jamaica and St Vincent. She works across installation, textiles, performance, poetry, sculpture and sound. Her practice centres around explorations of selfhood, Black Caribbean British identity politics and ancestral healing.
Currently based at a studio at Somerset House, London, Holder creates large scale tapestries, portraits and wearable art using traditional processes like rug tufting and embroidery alongside experimental techniques. Holder explores the body as an archive, drawing on her experiences of healthcare inequalities faced by Black women. Through a lens of Caribbean heritage and queerness, she generates conversations around how spaces are shaped through social, political and cultural influences.
Teylu (pronounced Tay-loo) is the Cornish word for family. At Tate St Ives, our families programme is intergenerational and inclusive of all kinds of kin. From parents and carers to chosen family, we develop creative learning projects and artist-led experiences for early years through to elders.