JAE JUN LEE
JAE JUN LEE
ABOUT
Jaejun Lee is a Korean ceramicist working in Cardiff, UK. He gained his MFA Ceramics in 2018 and his BFA Ceramics in 2013 from Seoul National University, South Korea.
10 years ago, I started throwing at University, and now I have become a person who makes a living with bowls. Sometimes I feel that I am quite used to it, but sometimes I still feel like a beginner. As I work everyday, I realise that I need much longer time and much more effort to be skilled. In the way I work, it is very important to have skilled techniques as my aim is to make good quality things.
There are so many products in the world. So many things are spread in front of us which we do not know where they came from or how they were made. We use some goods because of their cheap prices, and sometimes we are tempted by certain goods because of their high costs. However, we do not know goods themselves well. All the things that have been produced have their own proper values, and maker’s motives of making them. We are no longer interested in any of these backgrounds because of mechanised systems.
Now, I would like to ask you to have more active and keen interest in things. Everything has its own value, and maker’s care and the value of labour. I work every day for value of my labour, and I want to communicate with people through what I made. I hope that people use things in their lives, and make a deep connection through using it, and grow their lives with that affection.
I try my best to enrich our lives as a member of this world, and I hope that this society needs more craftsman who might be working
even now to do a role as a part of this world.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
Solo Exhibition will be held in Seoul
2021
8th May - 3rd July The Impossibility of Repetition
with Jin-eui Kim and Florian Gadbsy
Make Hauser and Wirth, Bruton, Somerset
29th April - 25th June Capturing Stillness
wtih Hayley McCirrick
Flow Gallery, London
2022
Solo Exhibition will be held in Seoul
2021
8th May - 3rd July The Impossibility of Repetition
with Jin-eui Kim and Florian Gadbsy
Make Hauser and Wirth, Bruton, Somerset
29th April - 25th June Capturing Stillness
wtih Hayley McCirrick
Flow Gallery, London
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