The idea of The Crafted Room is to adjust the original function of the given room and to create new narratives through contemporary art contexts. Our first project of The Crafted Room Speaking Shadows presents abstract paintings, narrating lived experience with richly layered stories, in the rooms at Yuki’s Kitchen to bring a new taste of spatial understanding.
Yuki’s Kitchen is a creative kitchen with inspiring cooking classes, book publishing, digital contents, etc. in South London. With this new collaboration, Yuki’s Kitchen is exploring new variations of the space to add more open and diverse features.
Featured artists: Heena Kim and Tamsin Relly
Heena Kim transfers daily events she observes into unique visual words which become narrative yet abstract images in her painting practice. Those daily events or feelings become the beginning of her painting journey and she uses her practice as a tool to record these ongoing experiences and suggest new approaches to them. She often changes the scale of the initial images to hover between representation and abstraction, or pick up on specific parts to emphasise or repeat as a visual character.
Kim is a South Korean born artist living and working in London. Her works have been exhibited in the UK and internationally through solo and group exhibitions since completed her MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins (UAL) in 2008, including A mark is a river at The Handbag Factory, In Conversation; freedom of distance, space and time at AMP Gallery in London, All S-He Ever Wanted To Be at Galleria M in Kolkata, India and Waving Stories at Amidi Gallery in Seoul. Kim also participated in artist residencies, talks, workshops and writing at Vitrine Gallery, V22 Collection in London, Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange in Seoul, foundation B.a.d in Rotterdam. With her interest in collaboration and participatory projects, She has been working with other artists to create interactive projects; Site Specific Squat and In Conversation and ArtDegree Studio.
Tamsin Relly’s multi-disciplinary practice explores the reciprocal relationship we have with our planet’s ecology and the ways in which we find connection with the living world. Recent projects consider the migration of plants and the preservation of botanical environments through conservation, urban parks and memory – be it personal, collective or held within the land. Research has led her to diverse locations including Svalbard in the Arctic Circle; boreal forests in Hämeenkyrö, Finland and the Eden Project in Cornwall.
South African-born and London-based, Relly received an MA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2011. Her work has been exhibited and collected widely in the UK and internationally. It has been included in group shows at Sid Motion Gallery, Informality Gallery, Oliver Projects, OHSH and TJ Boulting in London and is held in the permanent collections of the National Maritime Museum, Imperial Health Charity and Simmons Contemporary in London. Solo exhibitions include: Forest Memory, Brocket Gallery, London (2017), Imagining the Amazon, House of St Barnabas, London (2016) and Jungle Snow, The Place Downstairs, London (2014). Relly has received two commissions from Hospital Rooms to make site specific work for mental health units in the UK. Residencies include: RE·THINK: Environment, National Maritime Museum, London; Hogchester Arts, Dorset and Pocantico, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York.
