facilitated in collaboration with Edinburgh Arts Festival (2024-2025)
Collective making serves as both a methodology and a format for fostering social encounters, building skills, and forming connections.
In this project, I worked with women from SCOREscotland’s sewing group in Edinburgh to create textile works that draw upon their lived experiences of migration and belonging. Through a series of participatory workshops, we explored batik techniques alongside hand-sewing traditions such as kantha and sashiko, connecting different cultural practices of repair, storytelling, and care.
Through the slow gestures of drawing, stitching, and layering cloth, conversations unfolded around memory, home, and identity. The workshops became spaces of shared learning and mutual exchange, where each participant contributed their own narrative, skill, and aesthetic sensibility to the collective process. The resulting textile works materialises a sense of community through process and making.