SHAPES

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Exhibition of Students and Graduates

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SHAPES

AN EXHIBITION OF STUDENTS AND GRADUATES

4TH JULY 2014 - 4TH AUGUST 2014 I ARTMOORHOUSE! MOOR HOUSE, 120 LONDON WALL, LONDON EC2Y5ET

EXHIBITION CURATED BY ILEANA ARNAOUTOU, ELISA MARTINELLI BROCHURE CONCEPT ARTMOORHOUSE ALL IMAGES ©ARTMOORHOUSE MEDIA PARTNER

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An image is a thousand words. Our mind breaks down images into simple geometric shapes. Their name: Geons. As a result an image is a thousand geons.

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Shapes are everywhere around us, in an angular version, curved, distorted, melted, deconstructed, merged.

We either acknowledge their existence or we just connive. Their form varies: they can be obvious, hidden, colourful, dark, bold or light. Pencil, brush, ceramic and plastic are the artist’s tools to create them.

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Their crave for experimentation and new discoveries, playing about with the most vital element of life and sight, the line. And the dialogue between their artworks, lights up the path for new perception and views in terms of creative investigations. Bringing together their inputs absorbed from various backgrounds, these young artists give birth to an innovative redefinition of shapes, life, and image and expression. 

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ILEANA ARNAOUTOU

Artist Statement

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The stepping-stone of every work of mine is a walk, a treasure haunt in the city. Discarded objects have always intrigued my creativity, as inspired by the culture of my country, I believe that every element has its own history and forms by that way its own character. I feel like rescuing objects and materials, bringing them back to life, by dismantling and combining them together, by lighting them up. I perceive my sculptures as a 3D collage, which due to its versatile dimensions provides me with the opportunity to unfold new ideas, ways of creation and combinations.

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Light plays a pivotal role in my work. It contradicts the bold and dark nature of the discarded pieces, creating an amazing contrasting balance. This balance is directly linked to the conceptual aspect of my work. Balance in all sort of levels. The scale is an object that has triggered me for a long time. More specifically the ancient Egyptian ritual of weighing the heart has played a pivotal role in building up my conceptual aspect of the works. Weighing the heart with a feather, for me is an amazing symbolic structure, which is mostly present in everything in life.

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My aim is to create and imagine scales, imagine the possible two sides, imagine their relationship. My sculptures weight light with matter, soul with human body. The “results” and combinations are infinite and that is what makes me want to create…

Weighing Light, Discarded wooden chair, metal parts, lamp 180 cm x 180 cm x 50 cm

 

DeCoding, Wooden reels, pumping parts, LED lights, glass chemical tubes 100 cm x 100 cm x 5 cm each

 

Light Scale, Discarded chair, Metal parts, Lamp 90 cm x 150 cm x 30 cm

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SE RIN PARK Artist Statement

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In my most recent works, elements of landscapes and portraits are suggested.

Circles and triangles appear in loose imperfect networks across the canvas. I include both graphic elements and gestural marks to communicate the atmosphere and feelings generated by the process of painting itself.

The physical connection is important; I use a knife, brush or fingers to apply paint as I feel my way through the work. The act of painting suggests the form; the final emerges through the process. Influenced by Paul Klee’s series paintings of Architecture 1923, I produce abstract geometrical paintings presents stage-like compositions with using a knife.

The lines allude to perspective through orthogonal breaks and diminution of the layers. They seem to open vast spaces through this geometry and their atmosphere. An inventive embracing of the potential of the ‘constructive’ may be seen in Klee’s repeated exploration of the ‘Square Paintings’. Though the circle and triangles are formally very different from the representational element, as they are painted together there is both tension and harmony in the work.

I also paint the shapes imperfectly; the outline of circle is even natural human quality. I have varied approach to the figurative theme. I experiment with how I join the shapes and representational parts together. I may impose a ridged series of connected lines to disrupt or order the overall form.

I am interested in experimenting with visual emotion of colour. I use a bright, optimistic palette and muted, sombre tones. The rhythm of painting is established through the articulation of the echoing planes of various colours. I demonstrate a multifarious use of style and form and approaches widely, in order to find the most appropriate colour, composition or texture for the thing that I wish to convey. My personal use of line and colour allowed to move between images that connect to the outside world and pure abstraction.

 

Ocean Mountain (triptych), Oil and Acrylic on Canvas,160 cm x 190 cm each

 

Dream Mountain, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 140 cm x 150 cm

 

Subtle Landscape,Gouache and acrylic on canvas, 200 cm x 140 cm

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JULIA IOSILZON Artist Statement

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“Regenerating an enduring experimentation with deforming shapes�

Trying to find a unique and universal language of describing the feelings without even mentioning about them. Physical impact on different forms and objects. Excited about the process of deformation, as it brings to the world completely new forms. The materials I mostly use underline the character of my works as well as their conceptual background. Scars and the historical and cultural background of them has also intrigued my curiosity. Through my art I try to embrace there dual nature and character, as they can act both as symbols of beauty and abuse.

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By flashing between sculpture and painting I am experimenting with disruption of their framings and allowing the exterior world to intrude their territory. Sculptural forms are used to create or extend the preliminary surface. Obstructing the space with solid materials and colourful volumes, shapes that are inspired by physically transformed objects and colours that look liquid.

Bring on noise, Acrylic Paint, Wooden Board, Chicken Wire, 110 cm x 140 x 55 cm

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The Squeeze vol I Oil on Canvas, Transparent Acrylic Sheets 150 cm x 165 cm x 20 cm

Untitled, Discarded Metal Parts, Oil,190 cm x 40 cm x 30 cm

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KEVIN CALLAGHAN Kevin Callaghan's work investigates ideas and conjectures about Utopian philosophy and science fiction. He wants to question and address the limitations of the human condition, revealing the simplicity of how we all travel consciously or unconsciously through the third and fourth dimensions of time and space. These conceptual goals directly reference his concerns with how and where science and the visual experience of art meet.

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Kevin uses simple universal mathematical structures such as the triangle and square as a point of departure. These are treated in contrasting colours in order to maximise optical dynamism and vibrancy. The geometric structures intertwine, appearing precarious and spontaneous, this dynamic state attempts to question notions of order and chaos.

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Callaghan is searching for a means to portray the notion of 'travel' weather inter dimensional or as a reality outside and unknown to us all. These visions of new perspectives of high-density reality or non-reality aim to penetrate a kind of outer space comprising a dream like world where reality meets conscious dreaming. In this forward thinking role ideas about Anticipatory Consciousness are examined and in particular how they connect to or are attached to objective reasoning, allowing questions of curiosity and wonder about the cognitive state to be explored.

 

Titan 2, Slip-cast ceramic, 36 cm x 15 cm x 14 cm

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Titan 4 and Titan 5 , Slip-cast ceramic, 36 cm x 15 cm x 14 cm each

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LAN LAN

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Through a spontaneous play of material assembled from unexpected and banal sources, Lan Lan seeks to present the spectacle of the inconspicuous through the use of camera, light and digital media.

Her current work inquires into how the intervention of nature by technology could prevail a more compelling perspective, drawing greater curiosity and interest in the ordinary matter.

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ALTED-Hydrozoa, C-Type Print, 30 cm x 40 cm

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ALTED-Hydrozoa, C-Type Print, 42 cm x 29 cm

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ALTED-Hydrozoa, C-Type Print, 28.3 cm x 37 cm

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ALTED-Hydrozoa, C-Type Print, 30 cm x 40 cm

Us don’t matter, Fish bones, Nail polish, Acrylic block

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Daria Gitmanovich

Artist Statement

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The logic of sensation, affect and ‘non-location’ are the key concepts within my practice that I am interested in exploring with the use of oil paint. I see painting as a dialogue between me and the painting/the painting and the audience, where the painting does not give definite answers, but asks questions, seduces with the physicality of paint and challenges by its appearance.

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The act of painting becomes a meditation, through which my everyday personal experiences become intertwined with the historical, philosophical and cultural affairs. The flower paintings are my earlier works, embodying my interest in the logic of sensation and affect (as discussed by Gilles Deleuze), but also hysteria and neurosis. As it has been established through the course of historical events, hysteria is closely associated with the feminine and this relation is of particular interest to me as a woman artist working in a contemporary art environment and exploring this connection.

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The flowers forming an imaginary landscape serve as a metaphor for a fragmented deformed body, an internal revolt against the external forces and excessive result of such situation. Inspired by Mike Kelley’s writings, to become aware of oneself, one has to imagine oneself unwhole. The Two Figures, on the other hand, explore similar themes but it has evolved on a different level, stripping down recognised signs and codes within the painting. Creating an ambiguous space with the figures allows a possibility for a continual coming into being and therefore a discussion - to give a middle of a story and let the viewer finish it.

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2 (Untitled), Oil on Canvas, 180 cm x 140 cm each

 

2 (Untitled), Oil on Canvas, 180 cm x 140 cm each

 

The Two Figures, Oil on Canvas, 152.5 cm x 167.5 cm

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PING ZHENG Artistic Statement I am Ping Zheng who is a painter. I graduated BA study at Slade School of Fine Art in June 2014, and I will do my MFA study in Rhode Island School of Design this autumn in USA. I started my art training at the age of 13 in Shan Xi province, where I was born and raised.

My first introduction to art was through drawing from observation, life drawings and the still life. I then moved to Beijing where I studied for two years and was introduced to Western art albeit a Chinese take on Western art. At the age of 18 I left China to do a foundation course at Camberwell College in London.

My paintings started out being an imagined realism; painting the world how I thought it to look. Over time the way I painted took precedence, the subject grew less important, the plasticity of the paint, the surface of the canvas and the brushwork took centre stage and the depiction of landscape became obfuscated by the very paint that painted it. Impressionism is still an important touchstone for me as I see it as the first paintings that are about the act of seeing and not about seeing the obscured.

The paintings that I have been doing now are concentrating on the act of viewing, or seeing the effect of the phenomenon of the break up of sight; heat distortion, sun reflecting on water, where what you are left with is not what you are looking at but the synthetic effect of light which makes you aware of the act of looking.

 

The Untitled 1, Oil on Canvas, 137 cm x 92 cm

 

The Untitled 2, Oil on Canvas, 100 cm x 76 cm

 

The Moon into the water, Oil on Canvas, 30 cm x 30 cm

 

The echo, Oil on Canvas, 30 cm x 30 cm

 

JAYEM JEONGMIN WON

Artist Statement

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I often use bold vibrant colours in my paintings/drawings and enjoy embedding narrative in my work. The inspiration for the narratives come from movies, music lyrics, as well as my own experiences and nostalgic memories. Using colour makes me feel like it helps to compose shapes and elements in my work visually and also captures the essence and feelings of my inspiration.

Biological shapes of cells growing is also one of my main interests which I often include in my work.

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Division, Fine Liner and colouring Pencils, 24 cm x 30 cm

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Frustrating, Fine Liner and colouring Pencils, 30 cm x 40 cm

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Artists on Show

KEVIN CALLAGHAN 2011-13 2008-10 2006-2008 2005-2006 2004-2005 2000-2002

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Postgraduate Royal College of Art (Ceramics and Glass) Crawford College of Art and Design (BA) Ceramics Ceramics Skills and Design Course, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny. Crafts Council of Ireland (Distinction) Crawford College of Art and Design (C.I.T) Year 2 BA (Hons) Degree in Ceramic Design.

Colaiste Stiofain Naofa, Trumore Road Cork City. City and Guilds Level 5. 1 Year Ceramics course (Distinction) North West Institute of Further and Higher Education, Derry GNVQ Art and Design.

Exhibitions 2014

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2012

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2010 2009

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AAF New York/Hamptons COLLECT at the Saatchi gallery London with Bicha Gallery AAF Battersea with Bicha Gallery London “Legacy” Cork City Council, Cork City Ireland Ma graduate show The Royal College of Art, Battersea Campus “Art Shanghai 2013” New Town Central Park, Shanghai “Point of Departure”Group Show, Great Western Studios, London ‘Action at a Distanace’ Solo Exhibition, The David Hackney Gallery, The Royal College of Art ‘Other Places’ Annabel Dee Gallery, Brighton, England Irish Ceramic awards/ Exhibition Mill Cove Gallery, Cork, ireland ‘ELEMENTS’ Shanghai, Shengling Gallery Work in Progress Show, Royal College of art Group Show at the Lavittt Gallery Cork City, Ireland Graduate group Show at the Black Mariah and Triskel Arts Centre, ESB Building, Cork City ‘Transmigration’ at the Doswell gallery, RossCarbery, West Cork, Ireland “Fractals” Crawfold College of Arts and Design BA (Hons) Degree Show, Sharman, Crawford Street, cork City “Sustainable Future” Exhibition, Limerick City Gallery, limerick City, Ireland “Bitter Sweet” An exhibition of nation and international artists, Doswell gallery, Ross Carbery, West Cork, Ireland “Focus on Ceramics” The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork Jindezhen International Exhibition at the Jindezhen History Museum, China Solo show intitled “Hui Pai” at the nine windows Gallery of the Experimental Sculpture Factory and Pottery Workshop,

Jindezhen, China “Breaking Out” Emerging Makers Exhibition. The National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny Design Centre, Kilkenny, Ireland

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Residencies

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Sept 2010-June 2011 July-Aug 2009

The National Sculpture Factory, Albert Road, Cork City, Ireland Experimental Sculpture Factory, Jindezhen, China

Experiences April 2014

March 2014 Jan 2014 Jan 2014 Oct 2013 Feb 2011

Jan 2010

Nov 2009

Aug 2009 Sept 2008

Art Technitian at the London Sculpture Workshop Ceramic, Plaster and Concrete Workshop, with MA students RCA Ceramic, Plaster and Concrete Workshop, with MA students RCA Ceramic Technitian at the London Sculpture Workshop Comission at the Blue Bird Restaurant, Chelsea Visiting Lecture at Loughbourgh College of Art and Design.

Commission for the Bodega bar, Cork City consisting of flock of origami birds flying

through the bar. The scale of each bird three and a half and an amount of 15 birds in the material of stainless steel, colours Ivory, Black.

Lecture at the space gallery and Collective South Mall Cork City, on the Ceramic Art

Residency, at the Experimental Sculpture Factory and Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China.

Lecture at the Crafts Council of Ireland’s Ceramic skills and training course on the

Residency, at the Experimental Sculpture Factory and Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China.

Lecture on work and talk at the Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China.

Lecture on work and talk at the Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China.

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JULIA IOSILZON Born in 1992 in Moscow, Russia. Julia is an artist based in London currently studying at The Slade School of Fine Arts (UCL). She has completed her Level 4 Foundation Diploma in CCW (University of Arts London) and previously experienced studying at Parsons Paris School of Art and Design. Her artistic perception lies between sculpture and painting.

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Exhibitions 2013 2013 2013 2014

Foundation Final Show, CCW Sculpture Slade Print Fair, Demonstration, Woburn Research Centre Refectory CafĂŠ Showcase, University College London Big Painting Show, Woburn Research Centre, Slade School of Fine Art

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Lan Lan

Born in Singapore,1991

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Education BFA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL Exhibitions Solo Exhibition: SUBNATURE, Grant Museum of Zoology, London. 21st May - 19th July 2014.

Group Exhibitions: 2014

2013

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FLEX, Camden Arts Centre, London. 27th May -10th June 2014 Ben’s Show, Arlington Road, Camden, London. 5th June 2014. dəprɛʃ dəprɛst, UCL Earth Science Rock Room, London. 9th May 2014.

Slade Sculpture show, Nutbrook Studio, Peckham, London. 21st Feb 2014.

Refectory Café Showcase, University College London. 6th Dec 2013.

Slade Print Fair, Demonstration, Woburn Research Centre, London. 28th Nov 2013.

An Aesthetic Project, Singapore – UK Cross - disciplinary Collective, House Gallery, Camberwell, London. 31st May 2013.

Central Saint Martins Foundation Exhibition 2013, 10 Back Hill, Clerkenwell, London. 7th May 2013.

The Sampler, Cox Studio, Fort Canning Park, Singapore. 20th May 2012.

Residency FLEX, Ceramic Art Residency at Camden Arts Centre, London. 2nd - 6th June 2014.

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PING ZHENG

Born in China, 1989

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Education (2014-2017) (2010-2014) (2008- 2009)

MFA Roald Island School of Design (RISD) Slade school of Fine Art, UCL Fine Art (BA) Camberwell college of Art, London, UAL Level 4 Foundation Diploma, in Art and Design

Exhibitions Solo Exhibition:

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2013

Menier Gallery, Pings’paintings

Group Exhibition: 2014 UCL Art Museum the sixth annual collaboration

St Stephen’s Festival, a group exhibition

Slade BA/BFA degree show

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Publications 2014

The smoke, London student interview by artist editor Liza Weber

2012

“The new tribe of talented Chinese taking over the capital, “a News, article by Josh Neicho

Ileana Arnaoutou

Born in 1994 in Athens, Greece, lives and works in London

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Education 2013-2017 2012-2013 2010-2012

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BA Fine Art, Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art –UCL- London Level 4 Foundation in Art and Design, Fine Art Pathway, University of the Creative Arts –UCA- Canterbury International Baccalaureate Visual Arts High Level

Exhibitions 2013 Big Painting Exhibition, Woburn Research Center, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL 2013 Foundation Degree Show 2012-2013, UCA Canterbury 2012 Final IB Show, Geitonas School, Athens, Greece

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Publications 2013

Cover Artist, Level 25 Art Journal, Issue 2, December 2013

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Se Rin Park Born in Seoul, 1990, Lives and works in London

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Education 2009-2010

Foundation Diploma Chelsea College of Art & Design, London

Exhibitions Solo Exhibition 2009 Story TJH Gallery, Seoul 2008 Inspiration Indeco Gallery, Seoul Group Exhibitions 2014 BA Degree Show Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London 2012 Mental Jungle, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris 2011 Made in New York Exhibition, Crossing Art Gallery, New York 2011 Microcosmos, Sky Yeon Gallery, Seoul 2011 形形色色 , Gleeman Gallery, Seoul 2011 ASYAAF, Hongik University, Seoul

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Publications 2014

"Degree shows 2014: Slade School of Art", an News, article by JOE TURNBULL “Artists’ Directory, in the August/September special 60th edition” Aesthetica Magazine, York

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Daria Gitmanovich

Born in 1992, Moscow, Russia

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Daria Gitmanovich is a Russian artist based in London who mainly specialises in painting.

She has completed her Level 4 Foundation Diploma in the Byam Shaw School of Art in 2011 and is currently beginning her 4th year of the BA Fine course at the Slade School of Fine Art.

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Group Exhibitions 2013 Lichfield Art Festival 2012 Group Interim Show, Woburn Square, Slade School of Fine Art, London 2011 Foundation Final Show, Byam Shaw School of Art

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Jayem Jeongmin Won!

Biography

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Jayem Jeongmin Won is 19 years old and currently a student at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Life, death and growth being one of her main interests, Jayem is often inspired by photographs of microscopic views of cells and bacteria growing. Jayem is also interested in the relationship and chemistry amongst people and enjoys using colour to portray this in her work. Having just finished her first year at the Slade, she wishes to carry on experimenting with various materials to make art, including performance art.!

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