Join artist Kim Chin and create a symbolic placemat through printmaking, sewing and collage. 

Food sharing and positive recollections boost connection and joy, and mealtimes often act as a love language that transcends cultures and generations. 

A menu of prompts will guide conversations around the table, reflecting on a memory of a favourite meal in 3 stages. Ideas include an illustrative representation of a delicious dish that you crave, who you are sharing it with, or it can showcase emotions and feelings on a smell or flavour through abstracted shapes, colour, and texture.

As sustainable ways of making are healthy for people and the planet, we will be upcycling everyday surfaces such as cardboard, leaves, textiles, etc. Alongside water-based inks, we will use natural dye print inks made from food waste and plants. The aim is to reintroduce practical skills in a playful, mindful, and collective way.

This workshop is part of our ‘Kitchen Tables’ workshop area – a space for exploring making connected to the many uses of our dining spaces, and what they mean to us.

Kim Chin is a multidisciplinary artist, workshop facilitator and community producer, primarily working with textiles, embroidery and print to learn new skills and activate conversation, self-discovery, and shared memory-making. Being of mixed heritage, living in London and abroad, has influenced Kim’s relationship with art and craftivism for a more inclusive, accessible and connected world.

During an extensive career in the textiles and fashion industry, witnessing the rapid rise in overconsumption and fashion waste motivated a change in how they use their passion. Kim explores print and mark-making skills to bring people together in a joyful, compassionate, and inquisitive way, celebrating a twist on traditional processes that are kinder to the earth.

Kim recently completed a peer-to-peer art residency at Metroland Cultures, which inspired ongoing community stitch workshops in the local area. Additional curating, artmaking and facilitating collaborations independently and as a collective, including non-profit museums and community organisations such as Coin Street Community Builders, Camden Chinese Community Centre, Kakilang, Counterpoint Arts, Museum of the Home, Southbank Centre, V&A, The Showroom and Greenpeace. Their most recent collective art activation was as a member of Mediated Landscapes, presenting at Sluice Expo x Lunga School, Seyðisfjörður, 2025.