Bookmaking and Experimental Printmaking Workshop with Teachers and Students from St. John’s Primary School, Ikiṣẹ
As part of their ongoing residency, Kim M. Reynolds and Moses Hamborg hosted Making With The Land on 3 July 2026, bringing together students from St. John's Primary School, Ikiṣẹ, for a hands-on workshop combining storytelling, bookmaking, and experimental printmaking.
The workshop began with an introduction to the artists' practices, followed by a series of poetic riddles led by Kim and inspired by familiar foods. The exercise led into bookmaking, where students and teachers worked alongside one another, using cut paper and simple stitching techniques to create handmade books that would become records of the day's activities.
The group then explored the farm with Kim and Moses, collecting leaves and plants to use as materials for printmaking. Back at the workshop, the participants rotated between two stations. With Kim, they created relief prints using plants they had gathered alongside everyday foods such as okra, cabbage, and onions, experimenting with the patterns and textures each material produced. With Moses, they explored another printmaking process using kaolin, glue, and cyanotype, drawing on his ongoing research into earth materials during his residency.
The workshop also built on skills introduced through My Story of Food: On The Farm!, a two-week creative learning programme in partnership with the Five Cowries Arts Education Initiative (FCI). Many of the students recognised the basic stitching technique and were able to apply what they had previously learned to their new books, creating a visible connection between the two workshops. The session concluded with the participants personalising their books with their names. By the end of the day, everyone left with a handmade book filled with prints made from plants, food, paint, and kaolin, along with an opportunity to see the materials around them as possibilities for making.
About the Facilitators
Kim M. Reynolds
Kim M. Reynolds is a writer, educator, and maker. She works across the fields of arts writing, politics, and food, focusing on the histories of pan-Africanism, ritual, social justice and arts movements on the continent of Africa and its diaspora (and their pitfalls). Reynolds runs Home Spice, a culinary project on the history of capsicum in Black cuisines, utilising both literature and cooking. She holds master's degrees in Media Studies from LSE and UCT, with work published in monographs, poetry anthologies, and over 30 bylines in publications like Mail & Guardian, and ContemporaryAnd. Reynolds has lectured widely and enjoys teaching the most. She will be in residency at the Zeitz MOCAA later this year with her publishing collective (B)andWi(d)th. Lastly, she co-leads Our Data Bodies, a collective examining how big tech and surveillance reproduce coloniality.Originally from Ohio and of Jamaican heritage, she has lived in South Africa for eight years.
Moses Hamborg
Moses Hamborg is a figurative painter whose work explores identity, movement, and perception through the lens of classical painting traditions. Trained at the Florence Academy of Art and Charles H. Cecil Studios, his practice is grounded in observational drawing and oil painting while increasingly integrating material research into pigment and process. His work has been exhibited internationally, including in the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London and the 14th Dak’Art Biennale. Hamborg has participated in artist residencies such as Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal and Pearl Lam’s 70 Square Metres in Shanghai, where he presented Taxon.
Kim and Moses' residency is generously supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
