As an educator, Ayesha shares their creative practice with elders, young people, and children, inviting collaboration, play, and expressive exchange through making workshops, discussions and informal conversations. Over the years they have engaged hundreds of people in materials and processes like metal, natural dying, clay, wax carving and more.
Their workshops are usually informed by their knowledge and encounters with practices in and around South Asia, focusing on sensorial, materiality and storytelling. Their work seeks to bridge local and global contexts, honour folk knowledge as central to learning, and unsettle hierarchies between art and craft. They have begun to archive their relational dialogues with people and the environment in these settings, stretching the senses by which art is shared and experie