This is a large standing porcelain sculptural vessel made in porcelain slip inspired by the book In Watermelon Sugar. It represents a lantern held by a future lover as she walks through a green forest at night. It contains a story that leaks out of the vessel like the light from a lamp flickering in the woods.
Length 50 cm
Width 50 cm
Height 60 cm
Diameter 50 cm
© Mimi Joung
© Mimi Joung
© Sang Duk Bae
© Sang Duk Bae
Mimi Joung
- Ceramicist
- London, United Kingdom
- Master Artisan
Contact
English, Korean
Hours:
By appointment only
By appointment only
© Sang Duk Bae
Colourful poetry
- • Mimi studied ceramics at Wonkwang University, South Korea
- • She trained with Martin Smith, Alison Britton and Felicity Aylieff
- • TS Elliot and Richard Brautigan are some of her sources of inspiration
For Mimi Joung, art is not a profession, it is a way of being. It is a practice and a form of poetry. It’s a reaction against commerce and the digital world. Fascinated by art since childhood, London based Mimi studied ceramics at Wonkwang University in her native Korea, then became an apprentice to a Canadian ceramicist outside Vancouver. After this experience, she moved to London to join the City Lit’s HND ceramic programme and to attend the Royal College of Art. Exploring language and meaning through making, many of Mimi's works are installation and situation projects, suggestive of landscape and stories, combining clay or glass sometimes bundled together with materials such as elastic bands, knitting wool, objects found in charity shops.
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Photo: © Sang Duk Bae
The girl with lantern
Photo: © Sang Duk Bae
I saw a lantern faraway
This is a large standing porcelain sculptural vessel made in porcelain slip inspired by the book In Watermelon Sugar. It represents a lantern held by a future lover as she walks through a green forest at night. It contains a story that leaks out of the vessel like the light from a lamp flickering in the woods.
Length 50 cm
Width 50 cm
Height 60 cm
Diameter 50 cm
Photo: © Sang Duk Bae
The girl with the lantern in pink
This pink large standing porcelain sculptural vessel made in porcelain slip is inspired by the book In Watermelon Sugar. It represents a lantern held by a future lover as she walks through a green forest at night. It contains a story that leaks out of the vessel like the light from a lamp flickering in the woods.
Length 45 cm
Width 45 cm
Height 60 cm
Diameter 45 cm
Photo: © Sang Duk Bae
The girl with the lantern again and again
This pink and white large standing porcelain sculptural vessel made in porcelain slip is inspired by the book, In Watermelon Sugar. It represents a lantern held by a future lover as she walks through a green forest at night. It contains a story that leaks out of the vessel like the light from a lamp flickering in the woods.
Length 50 cm
Width 50 cm
Height 45 cm
Diameter 50 cm
Photo: © Mimi Joung
Sundown in orange moon
This small circular porcelain wall sculpture made in porcelain slip is inspired by the book In Watermelon Sugar. It represents the sun setting at night. The sculpture contains an emotion just as the setting sun carries our emotions at the end of each day.
Length 22 cm
Width 22 cm
Height 4 cm
Diameter 22 cm
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