Yoonjung Shim’s work explores the aesthetic of abstract, conceptual, geometric compositions in etchings. 

With interests in architecture and spatial design, she portrays geometric patterns that we can encounter in our everyday lives. Inspired by the formal beauty of Brutalist architecture, she recreates the regularities of what appears to be a rippling facade. The inconsistent lines which form this geometric tessellation allude to the imperfections that we find in our urban scenes. Her works are often concerned with the depiction of various façades. She loves the subtle inconsistencies created by human strokes, which convey faint unevenness and originalities which differ from digital computerized graphics. By threading contemporary patterns into a very traditional medium,‘etching’, she creates an artistic fusion between past and present.

The Pianoforte series are tessellated line compositions. Coloured in soothing monotones, the work has a meditative effect.  Yoonjung Shim sees her work as harmonious created with a kind of musical geometry.

Yoonjung Shim (b. Seoul, South Korea) is a printmaker based in London.

Accolades

Exhibitions: RA Summer Exhibition, 2014 & 2019.  National Original Print Exhibition in London 2016, 2017, 2018. Prize exhibition at RBSA in Birmingham, 2015. Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, 2018, 2019, 2020. New York International Miniature Print Exhibition in New York, 2017.  Her works have also been exhibited in Ireland, Spain and France.

Awards: London Print Studio award at Print City exhibition, Morley gallery.

Yoonjung has work in the V&A Museum print archives. Yoonjung is a member of Southbank Printmakers and Printmakers Council.