Shelanu into the Community

Over the past three months members of Shelanu, a collective of migrant and refugee women, have led other women, many of whom are also migrants and refugees, at four centres.

Using polymer clay and learning a variety of techniques, participants each created their own collection of unique and personal jewellery. As with all of Shelanu’s work, the themes of place, identity and belonging ran throughout the workshops, and elements of these can be seen within the final results. Shown together with contrasting imagery and colours the collections act as a snapshot of the diversity within Birmingham.