Daam Dah 2018 kilnformed glass, 23.5ct gold leafH:14cm W:13.5cm D:7.5cm

Daam Dah 2018 kilnformed glass, 23.5ct gold leafH:8cm W:14cm D:14cm

Daam Dah 2018 kilnformed glass, 23.5ct gold leafH:7cm W:7cm D:8cm

Korean Glass 2017 blown glass and ceramic parts from English manufactured teapots H:17cm W:15.50cm D:15.50 cm

Korean Glass 2017 blown glass and ceramic parts from English manufactured teapots

Korean Glass 2017 blown glass and ceramic parts from English manufactured teapots H:20cm W:20cm

Arabic glass

The Korean Glass

Originally from South Korea, Choi Keeryong came to Britain to complete a Master of Design at Edinburgh College of Art and in 2010, continued to embark on a PhD in Glass and Architectural Glass. Keeryong has exhibited widely across the UK whilst investigating the similarities and differences between cultural groups in terms of their aesthetic perceptions of visual experiences, particularly in relation to unfamiliar materials and surface imagery.

Choi’s motivation for creating this body of work is to explore how the ambiguity of an individual’s cultural interpretation can help to create the state of “uncanni-ness” in the audience’s visual experiences. He believes that this “uncanni-ness” provokes emotions and feelings and Choi manipulates this powerful tool within his artistic practice to promote the awareness of stereotypes in an individual’s cultural understanding.

Developing inlaid colouring techniques inspired by the ancient Korean “Saggam” pottery allows him to explore the state of ambiguity in visual experience by delineating geometric patterns and counterfeit letters onto glass artworks and encapsulating them in between the layers of transparent glass. The use of historical symbolism of tea and the popularity of English manufactured ceramic teapots are the metaphor for the cultural stereotype in both West and East.