Shaya ishaq

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Shaya Ishaq is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer whose research interests span craft, diaspora, design anthropology, and (Afro)futurism. Devoted to materiality, she works with textiles and clay to create wearable art, jewellery, and installations.Through the meditative processes of weaving, felting, and handmade ceramics, she explores the nuances of her positionality and the liminality of rites of passage which often leads to sculptural textile and ceramic works. Her curiosity about the poetics and politics of space informs her interests in creating immersive installations that embrace the emergent possibilities of spatial design. This allows her to explore how we relate and hold space for each other across differences.

She has studied Fibres & Material Practices at Concordia University where she was a research fellow of the Textiles & Materiality Research Cluster as part of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology. Shaya has exhibited her work at venues including Khyber Centre for the Arts (Nova Scotia), Ottawa Art Gallery, and Art Gallery of Burlington (Ontario). Her writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Studio Magazine, and Public Parking.

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Shaya Ishaq is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer whose research interests span craft, diaspora, design anthropology, and (Afro)futurism. Devoted to materiality, she works with textiles and clay to create wearable art, jewellery, and installations.Through the meditative processes of weaving, felting, and handmade ceramics, she explores the nuances of her positionality and the liminality of rites of passage which often leads to sculptural textile and ceramic works. Her curiosity about the poetics and politics of space informs her interests in creating immersive installations that embrace the emergent possibilities of spatial design. This allows her to explore how we relate and hold space for each other across differences.

She has studied Fibres & Material Practices at Concordia University where she was a research fellow of the Textiles & Materiality Research Cluster as part of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology. Shaya has exhibited her work at venues including Khyber Centre for the Arts (Nova Scotia), Ottawa Art Gallery, and Art Gallery of Burlington (Ontario). Her writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Studio Magazine, and Public Parking.

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