Quoil

Sujin Lim

I always draw pictures in my head, while talking, or in any other circumstances. Every moment of the day, I draw pictures in my head to understand and communicate with other people. Sometimes those pictures are realistic, sometimes they are abstract.

Art didn't suddenly start in me. I was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1985, from a very young age I felt that art was an endless expression of my aesthetics, my thoughts and my identity. Creation gives shape to my thoughts.

Life for me without creation is dull, arid, vapid and meaningless. Even the memory of the youngest times was that I was happily making a rabbit with a piece of leaf.

I believe the best ability of mine is to create and express in a form of art. From it I find happiness and perceive a truth in me. I continue to try to explore, develop and challenge myself to perfect my practice. I’ve gained happiness, joy and self-worth from creating my work. My paper jewellery allows me to express the delicacy and exquisiteness of form and craftsmanship that I desire.

The theme and main material of my works are fairytales and papers. I make jewellery with fairytales that people would have read or heard during their childhood, and often from fairytales I heard as a child. People often forget as they grow older how beautiful and heart warming the fairytales were, even though they grew up with those stories. When I was small my mother taught me origami, making animals, plants etc… I was enchanted by this process as much as I was by the fairytales she read to me.

I was and still am happy and sad with the characters from the fairy tales, which made me to grow into an affectionate and a warm hearted person. However, it is pitiful that nowadays people lose their child's mind and innocence in this severely, rough and tough world. So I’ve decided to use the fairy tales as my theme to help people to rediscover their warm and innocent heart through my jewellery.

My work symbolises gifts for the characters from the fairy tales, or symbolically represents the fairytale itself or express my wishes through my work. All my work contains my wishes, memories, regret’s, heart of a child, ideology, sadness, angers, love and delightfulness.

I am excited by the properties of paper such as delicacy, lightness and surprising strength, and will explore my creative practice in this material for many years to come.

I am endeavouring to create jewellery that people have not seen before, yet all the materials and the ideas are common to us all. I would like create jewellery that would captivate and influence our generation.

Jewellery is my way to communicate with other people.

SJ02. 'Swan' Brooch $1520

SJ03. 'Blue bird' Brooch $420

SJ04. 'Bird Cage' Brooch $720