Yun Park

Yun Park is a London-based visual artist of South Korean origin. She lives and works in London and Seoul.

Park's practice spans across painting, installation, film, sound, photography and ceramic. Her practice is rooted in meditation and focuses on deconstructing its fundamentals. Her work attempts to represent the state of emotions and to provide memories and sensory experiences. Through abstract narrative and meditation, she poses questions about the state of human psyche which allow us to examine our life from the wider perspective.

Yun Park received a BA degree from UAL Wimbledon College of Arts in Painting in 2019 and also studied art therapy and art history at Columbus College of Arts and Design in United States (2012-2015). In 2022, she received an Master of Arts degree in painting from the Royal College of Art.

All of my art questions the audience themselves; through my paintings, the audience could draw their own insights. The answer to my questions varies from person to person; I hope that the audience has a chance to regard the world from a broader perspective with their unique insights while seeing themselves in the big picture. - Yun Park

My current practice is meditation presented in contemporary art where I deconstruct the cultural significance of colours, blacks and whites with a spectral colour in relation to multi-disciplinary approaches. The colours in my painting attempt to activate emotions and feelings from the viewers which are difficult to pin down or explain. In recent work, I regard that the most effective meditation colours as black and white because they are simple, but multifaceted depending on the light source. Both white and black colours are also complex and at times only implicit.

I also define the colours of white and black as Milan Kundera's philosophical themes of lightness and weight. He describes the irony of life by contrasting the characters as the opposites black and white are often chosen for essential questions about identity. Having light and heavy qualities, the white and black can be seen as metaphors for human life and death.

I believe that paintings intersect (or fuse) with the viewer's state of mind and emotions and create a unique reading of the artwork each and every time. I am exploring the healing power of insight and self-awareness.