What We Carry From Home

What We Bring From Home

Join artist Vian Hussein DIPACT for a hands-on, fabric-based workshop where creativity and personal expression come together. In this relaxed and welcoming session, you’ll design and create your own small textile piece to take home, exploring themes of identity, culture, pattern, and words in a way that feels meaningful to you.

Participant's will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition WORN: the life within clothes, then using a mix of materials and techniques - including paint, embroidery, and mark-making - you’ll experiment with symbols, text, and pattern to tell your story through fabric. No prior experience is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to explore.

As part of the session, you’ll also collaborate on a larger shared textile artwork. Each participant will contribute their own unique touch, helping to build a collective piece that will go on to be featured in a final exhibition at 1853 Studios and Bridge 5 Mill.

Funded by Arts Council England as part of the Global Roots Canvas project.

Vian Hussein

Vian is a multidisciplinary Kurdish artist from Syria, now based in the UK, working across textiles, painting, and installation. Her practice explores women’s experiences, memory, and cultural identity, often shaped by migration, displacement, and resilience. Alongside her work as an interior designer, she creates spaces that bring people together through storytelling and collective making.

Her workshops focus on intuitive, exploratory creative approaches, inviting participants to engage with personal narratives through mark-making, fabric, and shared expression. Vian’s approach prioritises connection, reflection, and openness, creating environments where participants can take part freely, regardless of artistic experience.

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