2025 - Moonju Suh

Personal Information:

Name: Moonju Suh

E-Mail: monicarhapsody@outlook.com

Moonju's recent experience includes:

2024

Permanently collected by Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany 
Exhibiting at ‘At The Tip of The Wheel’, The Glass Factory, Boda glasbruk, Sweden

2023

Publish a poster ‘The application of Kidult toy collecting culture within creative glass practice as an expression of self-ethnography’ at European Academy of Design 2023, Glasgow, United Kingdom 
Permanently collected by KODA Art Museum, Bergen, Norway S12 Young & Loving exhibition 

First place awarded  in Making Your Mark and David Peace Prize 2023, Guild of Glass Engravers, United Kingdom 

Third place awarded in the 2021 Oldfield Award, Society of Glass Technology,  Sheffield, United Kingdom 

London Collect Art Fair 2023 (Consign to the Craft Scotland), London, United Kingdom 

About my Work:

I express both playfulness as well as other contrasting emotional states through my glass work, by using a kitschy aesthetic, which is inspired by Kidult toy culture.

The glass dolls in my artwork ‘Nobody knows what the problem really is’ visualise my hidden emotions that are caused by social pressure and microaggression from everyday interactions in the UK as an Asian minority female.

The images on each glass of the doll are hand-cut onto vinyl, sandblasted and then finally engraved.

(All images were photographed by the engraver. Click on any image to see a larger version.)

The Engravings:

Image 1 JIMAN

Image 2 RONA

Image 3 MEDOB

Image 4 JIMAN (back)

Image 5 (group photo)