Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2024 Residency Prize Winner, Sydney-based Korean-Australian artist, Hyun Hee Lee, will guide participants through a process of connection and healing by expressing their emotions and experiences with chosen fragments of words filtered through their own experiences in an exclusive full day workshop held in the studio space at Montville Country Cabins, Montville.

Participants will be encouraged to create artworks using personally chosen fragments of words and writings cut out of silk before stitching them onto canvas. These fragments will be reassembled and stitched onto canvas creating new stories and opening insights into new possibilities. During this process they will have the experience of connecting with their emotions and feelings which will be developed and express through their individual artworks.

Each participant will complete one personalised artwork. All materials will be supplied, and morning tea and lunch are included in the cost.

Artist Bio: Hyun Hee Lee is a Korean-Australian visual artist whose work traverses the traditional Korean and Western art practices. Her aim is to establish a spiritual and cultural connection with her country of birth. She achieves this by recreating and re-contextualizing traditional rituals, cultural practices and customs in a contemporary context.She has graduated with a BFA (Honours) from the National Art School with an Honours Fine Art Scholarship. Also, she has a MFA (Research) from the UNSW Art and Design.She was awarded the Redgate Residency in Beijing and La cite International des Arts Paris Residency. Also, winner of the Blake Prize for the John Coburn Emerging Artist Award and an acquisition award in JADA.She has had many solo exhibitions in South Korea and Australia and is represented by Artereal Gallery in Sydney and Kara’s Gallery in Seoul. Recently she was the winner of the Artist in Residency Prize for 2025 in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize.

Image: Sample of work [detail], supplied courtesy of the artist.