Bosla Arts X Quilt Club
We collaborated with Bosla Arts, offering our studio, equipment and skills for their From Hebron to London: Sewing Workshop, where London based participants recreated a work by artist Shahd Itbakhi.
Shahd, unable to come to London for their artist-in-residency due to the UK’s harsh borders, defied border restraints by recreating the artwork live via participants.
The piece is part of Shahd’s work, What Does It Truly Mean to Walk the Land’s Borders on Foot? (2026), documenting a two-month journey during which Shahd walked the full borders of Area A in West Bank, from Jenin in the north to Dura- Hebron in the south.
The final work was shown at That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore - an exhibition by Rand Hamdallah in collaboration with Shahd Itbakhi.
Being trusted to recreate Shahd’s beautiful artwork in collaboration with Bosla Arts and Rand was deeply moving process for us. Combining appliqué and machine stitching techniques to layer fabric, thread and texture, plus hand stitching to trace Shahd’s footsteps, together we completed this piece in just eight hours.
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore / 5 December 2025 / London
Exhibition and live performance by Bosla Arts’ artist-in-residence - Palestinian artist Rand Hamdallah, presented in collaboration with online artist-in-residence Shahd Itbakhi
Rand Hamdallah
Shahd Itbakhi
“Working with the Quilt Club was one of the best moments of Bosla Arts’ art residency programme where we came together to recreate one of our artists-in-residence’s works from the West Bank to London. Being led and guided by the Quilt Club meant that the work transformed into something we could only have hoped for! And it was one of our most moving workshops to date.”