This September we welcome Tyreis Holder as our Teylu Visiting Artist. This annual programme invites a contemporary artist to Tate St Ives to co-create an immersive and participatory large-scale artwork with local families, young people and community groups in our Foyle Studio.
Join Tyreis Holder for the day, make art alongside her, learn about her work, and get involved with different types of making inspired by the five senses. Drop in anytime between 10.00-15.00 to make with the artist and visit our exhibitions.
We recommend this event for children and young people. Under 12s must be accompanied by an adult.
This special event will be the final day of Tyreis Holder creating an immersive making space in the Foyle with families, to visit on another day please see Teylu Visiting Artist: Tyreis Holder. Following Tyreis Holder’s visit, the installation will stay up for visitors to see until Sunday 11 October Teylu Visiting Artist Exhibition: Tyreis Holder.
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.