About
Kim Chin is a British ESEA*- Caribbean multidisciplinary artist-designer, independent curator, and community producer. These cultural threads influenced Kim’s curiosity for using story telling in practices that ground people with their environment and more than human kin.
Through co-creating textile work, printmaking, and public-facing events, Kim’s work celebrates and explores diaspora broadening definitions of British culture. Their mission is to amplify intersectional perspectives that are often overlooked or minimised. Pulling un/learnings from her international fashion and textile industry experience and local community organising, Kim navigates arts, learning and social spaces to inspire agency, connectivity, and belonging in heart-provoking ways.
Kim is co-founder of ESEA unseen, a duo who use textiles waste during their thematic workshops, and co-founding member the Equity Advisory Council, who’s aim is to remove barriers within the crafts sector for marginalised makers. Workshops, events and provocations on ESEA liberation have been showcased in collaboration with National Portfolio Organisation (NPO)’s Southbank, Kakilang Arts, and the Museum of the Home in addition to non-profit making cultural organisations Autograph ABP, Tate Modern, Camden Chinese Community Centre, and Greenpeace UK. Further workshops or talks integrating influences of migration and transnational exchange have been held at the Migration Museum, the Crafts Council, the Camden People’s Theatre, and Haworth Gallery as part of Conversations in Creativity, Lancashire, during the British Textile Biennial, 2023.
*ESEA = East and Southeast Asian