Tyreis Holder

Working across textiles, installation, performance, poetry, sculpture and sound, her practice centres creative process as a form of care and healing. Through textiles, poetry and participatory practice, she creates spaces where care, cultural memory and collective healing can be embodied. She explores selfhood, diasporic identity politics, Black Caribbean British identity, queerness, ancestral and generational healing, health politics, heritage, herbalism, archival storytelling and the creation of living archives that resist the erasure of Black Caribbean histories while navigating colonial spaces.

Textiles function as both a poetic language and a healing device within her practice, particularly in relation to trauma experienced by Black women and communities.Working with materials that carry ancestral knowledge, care and histories of resistance, she understands making as a spiritual practice – one guided by intuition, ancestral me-mory, and renewal. Alongside this, her work is grounded in community facilitation, creating inclusive, restorative spaces where creativity supports emotional expression, self-regulation and collective healing.

Drawing from lived experience, she generates conversations around how social and intimate spaces are shaped through race, diffability*, community, heritage, class, sexuality and culture.

Poetry translates into garments, installations pose as poetry pages.