Choi Bo-ram South Korean, b. 1985
Choi Bo-ram reinterprets traditional, blue and white pottery into arresting optically surreal sculptures. The artist works with coarse stoneware and uses small, cloud-like clay patches to create her structures. She applies delicate line drawings to the surface, connecting one ‘patch’ to another. Her Blue Jars are left unglazed to reveal the hand-crafted textures that lie beneath the endless lines. The contrasting dense blue interiors of the jars are achieved using liquid cobalt, absorbed into the raw clay while dripping down and around the artist’s restless finger marks.
Selected Awards & Collection
The Devonshire Collections, UK
International Ceramics Competition Mino 2011, Silver Prize, Japan
Seoul Contemporary Ceramic Art Prize 2010, Winner, South Korea
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Choi Bo-ramBlue Moon Jar, 2018Stoneware and cobalt pigments. Unglazed40 x 40 x 40cmView more details
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Choi Bo-ramBlue Moon Jar, 2018Stoneware and cobalt pigments. Unglazed40 x 40 x 40cmView more details
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Choi Bo-ramWarm breeze, 2020Stoneware and cobalt pigments. Unglazed25 x 25 x 22cmView more details
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Choi Bo-ramWarm Breeze (Tall), 2020Stoneware and cobalt pigments. Unglazed45 x 45 x 60cmView more details
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Choi Bo-ramIndigo Blue Jar #1, 2022Hand-built stoneware with drawn cobalt blue lines, unglazed26.5 x 28 x 28 cm
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Choi Bo-ramIndigo Blue Jar #2, 2022Hand-built stoneware with drawn cobalt blue lines, unglazedH 27 x Ø 26cmView more details
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Choi Bo-ramJeju Blue Jar #1, 2022Hand-built stoneware with drawn cobalt blue lines, unglazedH 27.5 x Ø 24.5View more details
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Choi Bo-ramJeju Blue Jar #2, 2022Hand-built stoneware with drawn cobalt blue lines, unglazedH 26.5 x Ø 28.5cmView more details
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Choi Bo-ramBlue jar, 2023Stoneware and cobalt pigments. Unglazed26 x 26 x 28cmView more details
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Choi Bo-ramBlue jar, 2023Stoneware and cobalt pigments. Unglazed17 x 17 x 23cmView more details
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Choi Bo-ramBlue jar, 2023Stoneware and cobalt pigments. Unglazed26 x 26 x 37cmView more details
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Moon Jar ; The Untold Story
Cromwell Place, 4 Cromwell Place, London SW7 2JE 3 - 14 May 2023Lloyd Choi Gallery is delighted to announce 'Moon Jar; The Untold Story', a London Craft Week Exhibition, organised by Korea Craft & Design Foundation and curated by Lloyd Choi. The Moon Jar is a sculptural form that became an icon in contemporary ceramic history and is celebrated in both the...Read more -
Korean Blue
Cromwell Place, 4 Cromwell Place, SW7 2JE London 2 - 6 Nov 2022Unlike Yves Klein, the colour blue was a hue that meant home to the pioneering Korean painter Kim Whan-gi who moved to Paris in the 1950s and became the father of the Korean abstract art movement. Its purity, transparency and tranquillity reflect the virtue of Korean traditions that played a...Read more -
Collect
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA 23 - 27 Feb 2022Lloyd Choi Gallery is thrilled to return to Collect at Somerset House. Alongside exciting new works by thirteen established Korean artists, Lloyd Choi Gallery is thrilled to present two new artists working at the heart of this new wave of craftsmanship. new artists working at the heart of this new...Read more -
Artefact 2021
Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, London SW10 0XE 22 - 29 Jun 2021Lloyd Choi Gallery is thrilled to announce our participation at ARTEFACT, a new contemporary craft fair launching this summer at Design Centre , Chelsea Harbour. The gallery will present eight Korean established and emerging artists who are working with ceramics, metal, mother of pearl, wood and textiles.Read more -
Jeju Island 'POP-UP' ; Material Dialogue
32 Shindaero, Jeju Island, South Korea 27 Feb - 15 Mar 2021In association with Gallery O-NEUL, a Korean gallery on Jeju island in South Korea to organize a physical presentation for Collect international audience to visit digitally. Material Dialogue explores the conversations in craft: those between artist and materials, the materials themselves and between tradition and contemporary practice. In the realm...Read more -
Collect
ONLINE 24 Feb - 2 Mar 2021For Collect 2021, Lloyd Choi Gallery will present eleven Korean master craftsmen and established artists who are working with ceramics, metal, mother of pearl, natural lacquer, silver and textiles including two of Lowe Craft Prize 2020 finalists, silver artist Cho Sung-ho and Ottchil Natural Lacquer artist Park Sung-youl, who are...Read more -
Collect
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA 27 Feb 2020 - 1 Mar 2021Lloyd Choi Gallery is thrill to launch at Collect and will present Korean contemporary artists who are crossing disciplines of architecture, craft, design, fine art, painting, sculpture and textile to create fine art today in South Korea.Read more