Patchwork Artist Talk - Ciara Neufeldt & Tyreis Holder

Community, Healing & Textiles — Tyreis is a multi-disciplinary artist working with textiles, poetry, and performance to explore Black Caribbean British identity, healing, and the navigation of colonial legacy through practices of care, resistance, and archive.

Patchwork is a collaborative project that brings together artists and participants, using clay as both catalyst and a connector. It is part of Ciara Neufeldt’s Mosaics and Ceramic Tilework Residency at the V&A. Ciara is exploring how ceramics can create joyful, inclusive spaces, and invites people to collaborate, play, and make with her.  

   

Ciara will be collaborating with artists Oren Shoesmith, Hannah Sabapathy, Tyreis Holder, and Joanne Dawson, for a series of talks exploring shared themes across diverse practices. Ciara will also deliver four clay-based workshops. 

About Tyreis

Tyreis Holder is a South London-based artist, poet, and community arts educator of Jamaican and St Vincent heritage. Her multidisciplinary practice spans textiles, installation, performance, and sound, exploring textiles as a poetic and healing language. Through this lens, she engages with themes of Black women’s experiences, diasporic identity, ancestral /generational healing, archives, race, community, and culture.