ANAIYA SHEIKHAWAT
Where’s Home for You?
Workshop inspired intallation
AgeUK Ealing
2025
This project began as part of my master’s research into migration, memory, and the emotional lives of objects. I collaborated with Age UK, a charity supporting older people, to understand how migration shapes belonging across generations — and how everyday objects hold care and identity.

In a workshop with older migrants, I asked a simple question: where’s home for you? The answers were layered — some spoke of countries they hadn’t seen in years, others of objects that grounded them. Sylvia, from Jamaica, shared her rosary beads; Rashid described a home in London built over decades of memory and change.

My response took form as a suspended paper house — translucent, familiar, its windows framing small keepsakes: a shawl, a rosary, a shoe. Visitors were invited to write their own reflections of home, turning it into a collective map of memory.

Alongside, I hand-stitched everyday objects onto black and white garbage bags — fragile portraits of identity drawn from care, labour, and the ordinary. Together, the works explore how home is built not only from place, but from what we carry within.







       



       

   




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