Jiwon Park was born in Seoul, South Korea, 1988. She trained in chemical biomolecular engineering in Seoul and has since gone on to study ceramics at Ewha University, Seoul and Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK. Jiwon has completed residencies at the Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and the Guldagergaard International Ceramic Center, Denmark. She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Mosoon, Seoul, Korea, Moment Scape, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary art, Gwangju, Long-moment, HPIX Dosan, Seoul, Korea and Bodily Moments, Gallery MEME, Seoul, Korea.
Jiwon Park’s ceramics are distinguished by an implicit sense of motion and curve. Inspired by contemporary dance, her works are composed of free-flowing undulating lines, evincing bodily gestures. Frequently using wet and flexible clay slabs and spontaneously stacking them, Jiwon captures movement within clay as it leans, tears and bends, ultimately seeking to balance the form and connect the slabs she works with. Often Jiwon chooses to join the slab to leave no trace of it being composed of separate elements, other times, she leaves the joinings subtly evident, bearing a trace of their moment of coalescence. In Jiwon’s words, “I am intrigued by how moments in motion gather to form a singular existence and what it becomes”.
Her stool series is inspired by the growth formations of plants as they respond and change within their external environments. Jiwon’s surfaces, reminiscent of dewy skin or satin textiles, are achieved through mixing glazes with two or three colours, which she then pours onto the clay bodies and to achieve greater depth to the surface, sprays on colour too. In her wall tiles, Jiwon has worked the surface of each slab with her hands, indenting and pinching, creating works reminiscent of miniature landscapes.
Jiwon Park was born in Seoul, South Korea, 1988. She trained in chemical biomolecular engineering in Seoul and has since gone on to study ceramics at Ewha University, Seoul and Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK. Jiwon has completed residencies at the Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and the Guldagergaard International Ceramic Center, Denmark. She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Mosoon, Seoul, Korea, Moment Scape, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary art, Gwangju, Long-moment, HPIX Dosan, Seoul, Korea and Bodily Moments, Gallery MEME, Seoul, Korea.Jiwon Park’s ceramics are distinguished by an implicit sense of motion and curve. Inspired by contemporary dance, her works are composed of free-flowing undulating lines, evincing bodily gestures. Frequently using wet and flexible clay slabs and spontaneously stacking them, Jiwon captures movement within clay as it leans, tears and bends, ultimately seeking to balance the form and connect the slabs she works with. Often Jiwon chooses to join the slab to leave no trace of it being composed of separate elements, other times, she leaves the joinings subtly evident, bearing a trace of their moment of coalescence. In Jiwon’s words, “I am intrigued by how moments in motion gather to form a singular existence and what it becomes”.Her stool series is inspired by the growth formations of plants as they respond and change within their external environments. Jiwon’s surfaces, reminiscent of dewy skin or satin textiles, are achieved through mixing glazes with two or three colours, which she then pours onto the clay bodies and to achieve greater depth to the surface, sprays on colour too. In her wall tiles, Jiwon has worked the surface of each slab with her hands, indenting and pinching, creating works reminiscent of miniature landscapes.
