Hee Sook Kim

Born in Korea and now based in Australia, the artist’s practice emerges from a quiet yet layered dialogue shaped by experiences of migration, transition, and cultural intersection. The meeting of colour, material, and object within the work does not remain fixed to a single place, but instead operates as a fluid space that holds movement, memory, and reorientation.

Resisting attachment to a singular medium, the artist moves freely between watercolour, mixed media, drawing, and tactile forms, allowing each work to determine its own visual language. This material fluidity reflects a lived rhythm formed through navigating between cultures, sensibilities, and ways of being.

Across the body of work, light gradually emerges from darkness, creating moments of pause that invite attentiveness, emotional steadiness, and reflective presence. These moments suggest a quiet equilibrium formed at the intersection of the familiar and the unfamiliar, memory and the present.

Natural elements are held within the intimate scale of paper/canvas and material, creating contained spaces where fleeting moments may be sensed, lingered with, and gently returned to. Flowers bloom across the surface, and through water, pigment, and touch, they are granted b...

2004 Bachelor of Fine-Art education, Mokwon University, South Korea
2025-2026 studying Diploma of Art therapy, IKON institute of Australia

Solo Exhibition
2004 1st solo exhibition, , Dae-jeon, South Korea
2022 Solo show , Belconnen, Australia
2025 ~ 2026 Display artworks at Blossom Cafe, Ngunnawal, Australia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2021 Celebrate Gungahlin festival, Artist showcase, Migrant women’s Art Group, Gungahlin, Australia
2018 Art show C3 Church Watson, Australia
2010 A little professional Group Exhibition with EAS Students, Lidcombe, Australia
2004 Graduate Exhibition, Dae-jeon, South Korea
2004 Annual Group Exhibition of Fine-Art education Group, Dae-jeon, South Korea
2003 Annual Group Exhibition of Fine-Art education Group, Dae-jeon, South Korea
2002 Annual Group Exhibition of Fine-Art education Group, Dae-jeon, South Korea
2001 Annual Group Exhibition of Fine-Art education Group, Dae-jeon, South Korea
2010 by EAS students Group exhibition, Lidcombe, Australia
2022 Creating space by member of the migrant women’s art group, Canberra, Australia