I and I and We are We is a summer 2021 recovery curriculum project exploring questions of identity and wellbeing with pupils at St James Hatcham Primary School. Using poetry as a stimulus, and textiles as a language, students will create punch needle rug patches to form a collaborative rug tapestry – exploring ideas of cohesion and connectivity through art, both individually and as a collective group.

I and I and We are We is a project devised and led by artist Tyreis Holder, with Poetic Unity.

BIO

Tyreis Holder is an artist, poet and visual storyteller from South London, with heritage reigning from Jamaican/St Vincent. She works heavily in mediums pertaining to installation, textiles, performance, poetry, sculpture and sound. Her practise centres around explorations of self and identity, the relationship with the mind, particularly within regards to navigating colonial spaces.  Her primary grounds for exploration are how textiles pose as a poetic language and function as a healing device. Bringing lived experiences into her practice, she aims to generate conversations around how social and intimate spaces are shaped through race, diffability*, community, class, sexuality and culture.

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