[Curatorial Project] Photography Exhibition: Dear Veterans

Theatre For All is honoured to present a photography exhibition of British Korean Veterans’ portraits.

From eighteen-year-old boy soldier to eighty-eight years old veteran, Dear Veterans looks at the faces of British soldiers who served in the Korean War 1950-1953. This exhibition illustrates interconnected memories through not only their sacrifices for a peace in the Forgotten War but the vigour of their lives today. It displays collectively 21 of astonishing portraits, taken by a photographer Mina Son and a collection of priceless archive which has generously lent by veterans of Surrey West Branch BKVA.

 John Bolwer MC as a young commander in his early 20s and John as 82years old veteran in 2015. 

This exhibition presented for an accompany of a screening of the Theatre For All production's documentary films: Korean Undertaker and Not one of the Forgotten in Rose Theatre Kingston. It will be displayed on the web of Theatre For All afterwards. It was an enormously great opportunity to curate the exhibition and film because it was also a very personal appreciation to them as one of the young Koreans. 

I have been very fortunate to build up a relationship with the British Korean Veterans with the documentary film crew since the first visit the Surrey West Branch at 2011. They shouldn't be forgotten. I am looking forward to attending a next monthly meeting.

[Curatorial Project] Responding to White

Responding to White shows how two artists appreciate white working with different media while they are fascinated by a structure, texture and precise in details.

Established mixed-media artist Buffy Kimm‘s paper sculptures create imaginary multi-circular spaces including her latest work Paper Oyster in the show. She is also well known by her astonish etching, photography.

A young porcelain jeweller Shih-Dea Deborah, Tseng was born in Taiwan, currently based in London. She find herself calm when she works with this particular colour. Emotional porcelain necklaces presented in the Responding to White is that she has fabricated for her series of Don’t Judge a Book by it’s Cover 2013.

Buffy Kimm

I am fascinated by space, texture and detail, and love to experiment with light and shadow. I was a set designer by trade, and always used model making in the design process. I now use these skills to create my recent pieces.

I enjoy working with photographs as a starting point, abstracting shapes and playing with texture and scale until I have created a completely new piece of artwork. My main medium is paper, which I use in a sculptural style as well as in an etched and embossed form.

I love the circle image and have enjoyed playing with the formal and the informal. I have started with very controlled stylised imagery and am now experimenting with more abstract, organic forms.

www.buffykimm.co.uk

Shih-Dea Deborah, Tseng

I aim to create a neutral area - peaceful but slightly odd, fragile but strong and smooth but rough.

I explore juxtaposing textures, which are desirable to touch, and so evoke emotions. This textural conflict generates irregular three dimensional patterns which share the same visual impact as they are all white.

For me white is a symbol of hiding, when white covers contrasting textures and compositions people are not at first able to distinguish between different tactile qualities – it creates a vague and abstract impression in the perceptions of touch and vision.

http://deborahtseng.wix.com/jewellery

The exhibition opens to 17th May 2015 at The Petit Corée

http://www.thepetitecoree.com/

[Curatorial Project] London We Live In

To celebrate the opening of The Petit Corée, pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent works by Sara E. Choi.  

Sara E. Choi is a ceramic artist and sculptor, studied both sculpture and fine art, at BA and MA level respectively, and have always had an interest in combining the two- and three- dimensional in her work while shared her interested in drawings, too.

  

Title: Millennium Bridge 

Description: Sgraffito drawings and underglaze paintings ( firing temperature: 1130- 1200’c)

Medium/Material: ceramic relief (stoneware clay, underglazes, slips and oxides)

Title: A scene with the cross I

                       Title: A couple 

Title: Covent Garden, St. Paul Cathedral

Description: Drawing

Medium/Material: pen and acrylic on the paper

A new slant on her approach to scriptures and drawings is very original. She draws the scenes of London where she lives and loves on the various materials.

For the ceramics, She applies techniques of Sgraffito and underglaze to stoneware clay before firing it three times at 1130- 1200°C. This demanding process allows vibrancy, uniqueness and charm to her ceramic reliefs.

It has been extended until 28th February as it's well-received from the dinners of West Hampstead. 

"My recent ceramic work has been inspired by my fondness of architectural scenes and religious motifs. It is influenced by my belief in humanity - love, sharing, helping, comforting, loneliness, isolation, solitude and hope, etc. Both theme of substantial and abstract make me to explore a more creative and unique way of working with my ceramics."

Sarah. E. Choi December 2014

Artist's Portfolio site:

www.sarahechoi.com

The Petite Corée:

http://www.thepetitecoree.com/#!art/c1c9t