Jaejun Lee: New Ceramics

Jaejun Lee is a Korean ceramicist who has been living and working in Cardiff since 2018. He has been exhibiting widely since 2013, in Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Ireland and the UK. His work is a balance of functionality and beauty in porcelain- meticulous, exquisite, meditations on form and process.

Completing both his BFA and MFA at Seoul National University, Jaejun sees his work as part of a contemporary movement in Korean ceramics that has its roots in the pottery department at Seoul, using porcelain rather than stoneware. Jaejun’s process is a labour of love- he spends more time polishing his work than the time spent turning, trimming or firing put together, using 60 to 3000 grade diamond polishing paper.

In 2018, he received an ‘Exceptional Talent’ Visa from Arts Council England. In 2019, he won ‘Best Ceramics’ at Bovey Tracey Craft Festival and Best Selected Maker at the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair in Manchester.