Yurim Gough

Yurim Gough is ceramic visual artist who comes from Korea, a country with a historic tradition of ceramics, where she was a fashion designer and had been designing high heeled shoes for over ten years in Seoul then in Tokyo and London.

She emigrated to England in 2007, the first time she had set foot outside Asia. Learning English from scratch and being influenced by the radical change in culture she went back to being an artist, which was always her first calling. Starting with life drawing and experimenting with other media, She found herself drawn to her cultural roots in ceramics, mixing the two. In 2013 she made bowls and sketched live models drawing directly onto the contoured surfaces, combining the organic hand-moulded form of the bowl with the human form of the model. A couple of years later she began to add imagery to the pieces to extend the narratives that began with the poses, seeking inspiration from what she found captured in the drawings.

In Asian culture bowls are philosophically connected with humanity; for example in Korea they might talk about how big a bowl you have in your mind, so the bowl is holding all your knowledge and experience.

Artist Statement
My art practice explores humans’ complex emoti...

(2021)
• Figurative Art Now: Mall Galleries, London,UK

• Cambridge Open Studios, Cambridge, UK

• Create Magazine issue 24, USA

• Paradigm Gallery, Group Exhibition ‘ Salvage” curated by Christopher Jobson, Philadelphia, USA


(2020)
• SWA 159th Annual Group Exhibition, London, UK

• Hix Art Gallery, Collaboration show with Victoria
Grant ,London, UK

• Saatchi Art ,Selected by Saatchi Art’s 100 Top
Women Artists


(2019)
• The Other Art Fair ,Brooklyn, New York, USA

• SWA exhibition at Mall Galleries, London, UK

• Cambridge Open Studios, Cambridge UK

• Selected and Published in Create Magazine Issue
15. USA

• Zari Gallery, SOLO EXHIBITION, London, UK

• Ruth Borchard Self-portrait Art Prize, Kings
Place(Piano Nobile Gallery), London, UK


(2018)
• Royal West of England Academy –166th Annual
Open Exhibition, Bristol, UK



• Cambridge Open Studios, Cambridge, UK


(2017)
• Visual Open Art Prize Finalists ,UK

• Flux Exhibition at the Chelsea College of Arts
London, UK

• Royal West of England Academy–Drawn
Exh...