About
Kim Chin is a British ESEA*- Caribbean multidisciplinary artist, independent curator, and community producer. These cultural threads influenced Kim’s curiosity for using visual story telling in practices that ground people with their environment and to themselves.
Through co-creating events and textile work that celebrate nuanced histories and traditions within British culture, Kim's mission is to amplify intersectional voices who nurture the relationship of society and geography in a collective way. Pulling observations from her international industry experience and community organising perspectives, Kim navigates the value of cultural currency to create a space of belonging; materialising histories otherwise erased, stereotyped, or misinterpreted in traditional arts and museum institutions.
Kim is co-founder of ESEA unseen, a duo who use textiles waste during their workshops for social change, and an active 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 concepts and realities 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