Leach Pottery Museum Installation: Hyosun Kim ‘Journey of a Moon Jar’

Leach100 Artist-in-Residence: September to November 2021

Available to view in the Leach Pottery Museum: November to December 2021

As part of our Leach100 celebrations, we invite you to discover installations throughout the Museum created by contemporary artist-potters in response to historic and contemporary themes around the Leach legacy.

South Korean artist Dr Hyosun Kim became our first Artist-in-Residence, as part of this programme, for 10 weeks from September to November 2021. Her body of work, ‘Journey of a Moon Jar’, uses the Korean moon jar form to explore the connection between Bernard Leach and Korean ceramic culture.

The creative works comprise 30 moon jars exploring the following themes:

·       ‘Metamorphosis of a Moon Jar’ - a series of intentionally distorted pieces that embrace risk as a conceptual tool

·       ‘Buncheong’ - pots reflecting the Korean Buncheong tradition, being decorated with slip in one of two ways: deombeong (dipped to achieve an overall coating of white slip) or guiyal (slip brushed onto the surface with a coarse brush)

·       ‘Moon Jars of Cornwall & Devon’ - works combining clay with raw material from Cornwall and Devon, actively accepting the workmanship of risk

·       ‘Black & White Moon Jars’ - monochromatic work focusing on the moon jar production method of making two bowls and joining them together

·       ‘Glass Moon Jar’ - various coloured glass powders have been added to the porcelain bodies

·       ‘Buncheong Moon Jar of Leach’s Tile’ - using inlay, sgraffito and gold kintsugi repairs, Hyosun connects Leach's slipware tile designs with traditional Korean Buncheong decorative techniques.

Hyosun’s works are also available for purchase, please contact our Commercial Manager: mark@leachpottery.com

With funding from Arts Council England, the Garfield Weston Foundation, and Cornwall Council, the Leach Pottery offered dedicated Talent Development to open call international residencies and a number of artistic commissions, to foster creativity and professional development.