Join Aya Haidar for Stitch and Spill, an embroidery workshop exploring the concept of home - through connection, place, and memory. You will be encouraged to become part of a collective as we reflect, either with others or silently, on notions of home. We will stitch these reflections onto tea towels, a functional domestic item that soaks up both literal and metaphorical spills. While making, we will explore together what home is and how we connect to it. Is it somewhere we have left and now long to return to? Is home bricks and mortar, or is it a feeling?
No embroidery experience needed. This is a limited capacity workshop. Please register in one of the available time slots. Please note materials are limited to 1 teatowel per household. This workshop is suitable for children 7+ under adult supervision.
Stitch and Spill by Aya Haidar is part of Castlegate Festival, which celebrates the heritage, arts, music, and markets of Sheffield’s oldest quarter.
This workshop forms part of the public programme accompanying Home Making, an exhibition exploring radical placemaking by Sahra Hersi and Sofia Niazi, developed with Rajo, a women's group connected to Andalus Community Centre.
Access:
Ground floor step free access, automatic doors at entrance, disabled toilet through two sets of double doors.
About the artist:
Aya Haidar is a multimedia artist. Her work focuses on the use of found and recycled objects exploring loss, migration, memory, labour, domesticity and womanhood. Her hand-embroidered interventions onto culturally and historically specific objects, unfold silenced and authentic narratives around socially and politically engaged issues.
Haidar’s work has been included in exhibitions at institutions such as Cubitt, London and Museum of Contemporary Art, Slovenia (2019), New Art Exchange (Nottingham), Jeddah Arts Week 21,39, KSA (2017), as well as in Hans Ulrich Obrist and Hoor Al Qasimi’s Do It (2016). She is part of the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Jameel Collection.
Please note: A photographer will be present to document this event. Photos will be used by Arts Catalyst for documentation and marketing purposes. If for any reason this does not feel comfortable, please let one of the organisers know at the start of the event and we'll make sure you do not appear in any photos.
