A two day paper extravaganza!
On the first day, participants will explore paper-making and will get to experiment with natural pigments, dyeing their paper using natural dyes.
On the second day, The Memo Club and Ayesha Fernandes will lay the foundation and provide the framework for a meditation for Analog’s Return: Our Human Need For It –– a prompt on our collective pasts and futures while participants can use exhibition ephemera and archival material to create collages from their hand-made papers. They will also be invited to learn a saddle-stitch by Ayesha Fernandes should they wish to bind their collages into artist books.
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Instructor Bio
AYESHA FERNANDES
Ayesha Fernandes is a visual artist and designer with a B.Sc in Visual Communication from the American University of Sharjah. Her work is driven by a deep sensitivity to microscopic and intimate interactions with her environment - whether it's the movement of roots beneath the ground, the sounds of living and non-living elements underwater, or other often unnoticed rhythms of nature. She explores this through the material qualities of unconventional mediums, often merging digital and analogue processes to create work that translates these hidden dynamics. Ayesha is a Fellow at the Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Emerging Artists Fellowship (SEAF) Cohort 12 and an alumna of the sixth cohort of Art Jameel’s Youth Assembly.
THE MEMO CLUB
The Memo Club is a collective founded by three emerging artists based in Abu Dhabi, whose work revolves around memory, identity, and community-building. The memo club is a community initiative, bringing people together to reconnect with tactile experiences, starting with print. The memo club was born out of this need: a space for adults to come together, when the 9-to-5 can feel all-consuming, when the expectations of life can leave little to no room for artistic practice. We wanted to create something for friends, and friends of friends, to gather towards something that could look like reclaiming time, thought, and materials.
SUMAYYA SIDEEK
Sumayya (b.1996, Colombo) is a UAE-based creative with a background in Media Studies. She has experience spanning various industries within the field of communications for organisations globally. Her work focuses primarily on documentation and storytelling in the narratives of impact-driven projects surrounding community, art, and social advocacy. Sumayya also works with MENASA-based designers and artists in their communications and archival processes. In the past, she has also performed as a spoken-word poet in the UAE.
ZOE CUSI
Zoe Cusi (b. 1997, Abu Dhabi) is a Filipino multidisciplinary artist living and working in Abu Dhabi. Her artistic practice explores the idea of connection - what it means to build, lose, and form something inherently and deeply human; Though most may argue that the definition of ‘connection’ is broad or vague, Zoe believes that is where its beauty lies. It has the ability to shape-shift, mould, and adapt to a world of narratives and perspectives, whether by force or choice. A storyteller by both trade and virtue, Zoe uses paint, poetry, paper, clay, photography, and oral history to tell stories of her lived experiences. Zoe is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship (2025) and holds a Bachelor of Communications in Public Relations and Journalism.
NADA ALMOSA
Nada Almosa (b. 1999) is an Abu Dhabi-based Palestinian artist and creative writer. Her practice navigates memory, identity-making, and play through mixed media, photography, and creative writing. Her works draw inspiration from her Palestinian heritage as well as the desire to preserve memory and chronicle stories of diaspora. She is a graduate of Literature & Creative Writing from New York University Abu Dhabi (2021). Nada has participated in the VICE residency by Exit 11 Performing Arts Company (2022), a mentorship program with Nujoom Al Ghanem (2023), and the Spectrum: Photographers in Residence program at Manarat Al Saadiyat (2024). She is participating in the Fall cohort of the Teaching Artist Fellowship at Manarat Al Saadiyat this year. She has published works in Corniche, Mizna, Strange Horizons, and Wasafiri magazine.