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Workshop: Carry Me Home

During the Artist in Residency and Open House at Schubertstrasse in Zurich, Caroline will invite visitors to consider how textiles shape our sense of belonging and comfort, creating keepsakes that embody a feeling of home.

Expanding the notion of home as a static place, this workshop will be an opportunity to explore the house on Schubertstrasse and the objects within it as a multisensory, ever-changing archive – holding stories of those who have lived here, those who visit, and those who may call it home in the future.

Whether the clothes we wear, fabrics which furnish our buildings, or the soft toys we played with as children, textiles play a significant role in our lives. They carry profound meanings, reflecting cultural heritages, connections to loved ones, and the stains, worn patches, and scents that accumulate through use.

In this session, we will explore how home is created through these sensory memories. Using hand-stitching techniques, you’ll create your own small textile artwork, weaving in elements of your personal story alongside the narrative of the house, and creating a piece of home to carry with you!

– Open to all ages, and no sewing experience is required – the workshop will introduce basic stitching techniques, and will be an opportunity to respond to the collection of textiles in your own way.

– We invite you to bring textiles and objects with you to use which hold personal meaning (e.g. buttons, scraps of fabric from handed-down clothing) if you like, but we will have lots of fabric, haberdashery items and supplies available too, so this is not required.

About artist

Caroline Ip is an artist and facilitator based in London, whose practice brings together interests in diasporic culture, storytelling, and archives, considering the processes through which our identities are constructed and contested.

Drawn to hand-sewing, perhaps in part due to ancestral connections to the textiles industries in Lancashire and China, this technique has become a medium through which Caroline explores her own mixed heritage and nurtures collective dialogue and storytelling in community spaces. Her artistic process centres a tactile relationship with materials, utilising recycled and second-hand fabrics alongside found objects and ephemera, with a curiosity into the role of sensory memory in shaping our cultural identities.

Caroline’s work has been featured in group exhibitions, including at Copeland Gallery, Indra Gallery, and The Bath House, London. She holds an MA in Art History and International Relations from the University of St Andrews and an MA in Curating Art and Public Programmes from Whitechapel Gallery and LSBU, and she co-curated the 2023-24 exhibition It All Starts With a Thread at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

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Note: The parking space is limited around the neighboring area, with a mix of blue and white zone parking spaces.
We suggest participants utilize public transport. Where the closest station:
Bus stop: Rotbuchstrasse / Nordstrasse (4~5 minute walk)
Tram station: Schaffhauserplatz (7 minute walk)
Train station: Zürich Wipkingen (10 minute walk)

✴︎ Organized by SAUVEART and Schubertstrasse
✴︎ Supported by Kho Family and NCAF