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Woo Jin graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2021, and is based in London.

Woo Jin is a mixed-media artist, specializing in soft sculpture and embroidery. Her practice focuses on exploring our relationship with materials and objects in our lives, especially in today’s consumer culture, where our engagement with them has become ever more temporary and fleeting. Through her work, she explores other alternative ways we can see and engage with these objects and materials, primarily inspired by East Asian folk culture and mythology, and what these diverse views might lend in reshaping our relationship with objects into one that is more lasting, caring, and enchanting. Through storytelling, art, and craft, Woo Jin seeks to address the topic of environmental sustainability and material value in an engaging and inclusive way.

Her recent ‘Dokkaebi’ series is inspired by Korean mythological creatures also known as ‘Korean Goblins’, which are told to have formed from spiritual possessions of inanimate objects. Inspired by this mythology, the series of sculptures animates found objects in an unexpected way, suggesting an alternative way of perceiving the material world that is more mystical and enchanting than the status quo.

Woo Jin graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2021, and is based in London. She has recently won The Fine Art Textiles Prize, Elephant Trust Fund Award, as well as being featured in Crafts Magazine and Arts Maze Magazine.