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Sat 18 Jul, 2-3.30pm
Clore Creative Studio
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About This Event
Suitable for those age 18+
Please note this will be a fast paced session where we have different types of stitches available for beginner to intermediate level embroiderers.
Materials will be provided for all attendees.
Coinciding with the Football World Cup, the Migration Museum will be hosting artist Nicole Chui to lead a participatory workshop exploring football, migration, race, and belonging. Drawing on her practice engaging football culture, fashion, ESEA identity, and protest, Chui will guide participants in stitching onto football shirts – weaving in the personal journeys of migration. Whilst stitching, we will hold an open conversation about national identity, and what it means to feel at home on and off the pitch.
Participants will be able to take their shirts home and wear them to the finals!
What to expect:
During this workshop, we will use the tactile, intuitive art of hand embroidery to express inner emotions, exploring how clothing carries our stories of movement, identity, and home.
Bring your own football shirts to explore themes of identity, culture, and global movement. Whether it’s a nod to your roots, a favourite team, or your own journey, you’ll learn how to transform a jersey into a wearable archive of what home and community mean to you through the art of hand embroidery. The embroidery threads will be your map on the shirt.
Please note this will be a fast paced session where we have different types of stitches available for beginner to intermediate level embroiderers.
Instructions for participants:
Participants to bring own football shirts / sport shirts (ideally football to stick to the world cup).
Please note there will be embroidery kits to purchase from the artist after the event if you would like to continue your embroidered artwork at home and can’t finish during the event.
Bring in visual references of identity: photographs, symbolism, sketches that you want to
convey onto the shirt.
Tapestry Needles, thread snips, embroidery thread, and embroidery hoops, pens and paper (for sketching ideas) will be provided for all attendees.
This event is part of Backyard Biennial.
Nicole Chui is a London based embroidery artist whose work is messy, brash, and disruptive. Her work is about exploring identity through intuition and emotion. Chui visualises the expressive feelings, inner thoughts, and stories behind the surface through every stitch. She is currently exploring her identity in football, movement and sports through her embroidery art practice. Her client list include adidas, i-D, schuh, Nike, Manchester United, Victoria Beckham, and the Young V&A.
Football and dance in particular have always been core in her life ever since she was a child, from training as a ballet dancer for 10 years, to co-founding the London based football club; Baes FC; grassroots football community for women, trans, and non-binary people of Asian heritage to play football. After graduating from London College of Fashion with a degree in BA (Hons) Creative Direction for Fashion, Chui was selected as one of the ‘25 future faces 25 and under’ by the Evening Standard in 2019. In 2025, Chui was an artist-in-residence at Tottenham Hotspur’s OOF gallery, where she debuted her solo show ‘Ruined’ at OOF.
