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.
Working onsite for five days, Holder will transform our Foyle Studio into an immersive space of collaboration and co-creation, inspired by her work in textiles, community, and Black Caribbean British heritage.
Visitors are invited to contribute to artworks in the space, each day taking inspiration from one of the five senses. Holder draws inspiration from familial spaces of domesticity and ancestral healing to create artworks that can be used for rest, conversation and making.
On Sunday 4 October, families of all ages will be able to take part for £1 entry between 10.00–15.00, to make with Tyreis Holder and visit our exhibitions. Following Tyreis Holder’s visit, the installation will stay up for visitors to see until Sunday 11 October.
Please note the Studio will be closed for a short time each day for community groups to take part.
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.
