text: Contemporary Korean art at the Saatchi Gallery: YeeSookyung – Artist's Blog
  Nicola Anthony July 20, 2012 December 4, 2012 Inspirations, Writing & Reviews
  Published in Trebuchet Magazine, 2012. Copyright Nicola Anthony.
  The show begins on 26th July, but if you pop into the gallery now you can see a taste of Korea coming through. Intricate oil paintings on aluminium surfaces by Hyung Koo Kang really draw you in, and beautiful 'translated vases' by Yeesookyung are growing in the lower gallery spaces. Made from 'ceramic trash', Yeesookyung's uncanny and bumpy objects have organic, bubbling forms featuring fragments of Korean patterned vases joined in a frankenstein-like manner to make new, growing forms. A network of fine gold veins stretches across the surfaces where the epoxy and gold leaf joins each vase piece to the whole.
  Yeesookyung, Translated Vase, 2010, Ceramic trash, epoxy, 24k gold leaf, (image courtesy of Saatchi Online)
  arts, ceramic art, Ceramic trash, contemporary Korean art, Debbie Han, Hyung Koo Kang, Ji Yen Lee, Korean Eye 2012, london, Myung Gyun You, saatchi gallery, Seon Ghi Bahk, Translated Vase, Yeesookyung