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A Room with a Hue project has been developed by MA Publishing students (at the London College of Communication) as part of their course. As a feature of the main project, this blog will introduce the users to creative working environments inspiring artists around the world. Discussions, events, abstracts from the book, but also colours and emotions will be experienced by the readers, giving them the chance to have a different insight into the art world. Open your artistic mind.

Monday 7 March 2011

“Work means almost the same as life”

Sunghee Ahn
Installation Artist


Sunghee Ahn’s installation works combine, in terms of both artistic inspiration and geographic location, the influences of her native South Korea and her adopted home of London where she first arrived in the late 1990s to take an MA in Fine Arts at the Chelsea College of Art, before moving on to a research fellowship at Goldsmiths College...


Inspiration 
It is from everyday life that she continues to receive her greatest inspiration, particularly how nature continually changes and reshapes itself, in the form of drifting clouds, leaves changing colour and flowers blooming.

Favorite artworks
  • The "captivating" abstract works of JMW Turner hanging in the neighbouring Tate Britain
  • Richard Wilson’s 20:50, a Saatchi Gallery installation of a reservoir of recycled sump oil

Studio
Ahn doesn’t have a personal studio, although she prefers a quiet private space to allow herself to draw on her thoughts. She would rather describe herself as working within “a nomadic studio”, whereby she adopts whichever site specific region she’s setting up her installation as her working environment.

Prizes & Exhibitions
  • Selected as International Architecture Showcase in London, UK - London Festival of Architecture (22/06/2010 – 04/07/2010): Korean Vegetable Garden in Spitalfields 
  • Selected as one of the Asian artists in the new millennium by Chinese Art Centre, Manchester, UK
  • Exhibition of the student engraving competition by Lancaster Univ., UK
  • Public Design Award in Seoul, Korea
  • Exhibition in Gwangju Design biennale, Korea
  • Exhibition in Busan biennale, Korea
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