Jaeeun Kim

 

Jaeeun Kim is a Korean-born ceramicist based in London whose work centres on memory, identity and the quiet emotional weight of everyday life. Trained in Ceramic Art at Kyunghee University, she worked in Korea as both an artist and a lecturer, alongside practising art therapy with children. This grounding in therapeutic practice continues to shape her ceramics, which draw on the symbolic language of the House-Tree-Person test to explore ideas of home, belonging and the inner life.

Her vessels often appear modest at first glance, yet their forms hold a sense of introspection, as though carrying private stories. Surfaces remain gentle and tactile, colours muted, allowing the emotional undercurrent of each piece to come forward. She approaches clay with an intuitive sensitivity, favouring honesty over refinement, and seeing the making process as a place where memory can surface and settle. Her work has been exhibited widely in the UK, recognised for its calm intensity and its ability to translate psychological states into quiet, resonant objects.