Andrea Innocent – Australia
Currently residing in Melbourne, Australia. Andrea Innocent is a professional artist/illustrator. Innocent’s personal work often tells stories of the bizarre and the quirky through detailed digital illustration. Her current work is an ongoing exploration, in a contemporary context of aspects of Asian culture from an Australian perspective
Cat MacInnes – Australia
Cat completed an Honours degree in Graphic Design at Swinburne University, and spent one semester studying Fine Art and Illustration at Hong-ik University in Seoul, South Korea. After working for the odd design studio she decided to establish her own illustration & design business. Her work has appeared in Illustration publications such as 3×3 Magazine, Luerzer’s Archive: 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide and Typotastic.
Courtney Kim – South Korea, Australia
I am a German-born Korean and I’ve been drawing since I was three. I attended Sun Hwa Art school in South Korea. I grew up with stories about North Korea because of my dad who’s working for Korean government and two Korea’s unity. I moved to Australia about eight years ago and started my career in graphic/multimedia design. I have been working professionally for three years, but I’ve never stopped doodling and jotting down ideas in my work book. I’ve always found inspiration from daily events, inner emotions and social issues. I had my first Solo show in Melbourne in 2008 and currently working as a designer/illustrator at my own business.
Darwin Tan – Indonasia
배하진 – South Korea
Lisa Golightly – United States
Lisa Golightly is an artist living in Portland, Oregon, USA. Much of her work explores the memory of childhood and how watching her own children influence the snapshots of the memories.
Paul Ikin – Australia
Ikin’s art resides on the jagged line of fine-art and illustration. Originally from Perth Western Australia he comfortably resides in Melbourne City. In his pursue and experimentation with various mediums Ikin has developed a unique style that is easily recognizable. Focusing on obscure figurative forms and removing unnecessary lines to reveal the truth of his subjects. The results are stimulating and absorbing. Drawing on diverse influences including Picasso, Hans Bellmer, Max Ernst, Aubery Beardsley, Alfons Mucha and Gustav Klimt. Ikin undertakes a pitiless analysis in the paint of himself (self-portraits), his friends, of the human body, and of our place in a godless world.
Yiyi Wang – China, Australia
I was born in Shanghai, China in a cold winter. Mum was trying to make me a pianist when I was 5, but I always end up doodling in the books.
I have been studying traditional painting in Saturday school since primary school. I love Manga and I wrote few fiction stories imagine one day I could turn them into graphic novels. I moved to Melbourne, Australia in 2002. After graduate from high school, I was in love with digital art at that time. That motivated me to study multimedia & digital art in Monash University. 3 years of uni really opened my mind to a whole new world. I worked professionally for 2 years and that’s when I discovered that I have to do something for myself to really explore my creativity. I started my own multimedia design studio, Cokoon, in 2009. I get to work with all different type of material and media in my studi o, however I always follow the old school way when I do oil painting.
이윤진 – South Korea
Don’t feed from the waters. Much of the North Koreanenvironment and river system is laden with contaminants andbacteria from faeces and garbage. What might be a good option forfood on the surface has fateful consequences.
As the North Koreans age, pondering their future, they begin to
look to the outside world for assistance. Who out there will help
them? The aircraft flies overhead, ignorant of the suffering below.
Only one option stands before them.
From behind the reeds, a young woman waits for the opportune
moment. She will make a run for the border. Silenced with a fear
that screams in her eyes, she reflects upon the stories she has heard
her entire life about what now awaits her.
The vine to freedom is strong but it cuts deep. There are costs for
being pulled to the safety of neighbouring nations — scars that will
remain long after the journey is complete
The large river stones that dot the flowing waters carry a deep,
dark secret. Look and listen closely, as they reveal more soul than
cold stone. They are life once lived.
Punishment for captured defectors is harsh and uncompromising.
The woman loses more than her life — the life of her unborn child
is the innocent loss of a great risk. The fear of bringing up a child
in immense suffering has made it a risk worth taking.
Those that make it don’t always arrive alive. They have taken their
number and have been dealt with like one. Welcome to your new
home, you almost made it.
She has adjusted to the only life possible and it has treated her well.
She can afford the fashions of the place; she lives in colour and
beauty. But the memories are never far away. She never forgets
easily where she’s been and what she has come from.