Imjooyun - Queensland

Handmade Pottery, Ceramic Art and Craft Imjooyun is 100% fully handcrafted and designed by Jooyun. All the works have been created with love and thoughts. They are not perfect or smooth are wonky, and have rough edges and surfaces as I want to keep the originality and naturalness of handmade. That is my personal touch of what I like and how I like to make it.

When I make my pottery, I hope that in being useful, even if it's not that fancy or brilliant, it can still be beautiful to someone, and by 'use' the pottery can be meaningful without being complex and overdone. I hope it can be seen that their imperfections add to their uniqueness and handmade originality.

I originate from Seoul, South Korea where I completed a Bachelor of Fine Art in Ceramic Art, before making the challenging decision to relocate to Australia to start a new life and get away from competitive life in Seoul more than a decade ago. When I decided to settle in a rural town in QLD, my inspiration and motivation were influenced by the particular landscape of this region - its trees and nature as well as putting my pure feeling of the moments in my work.

In my work, I walk into a place I have never been. I'm calm and quiet, I travel to my past and tomorrow, I'm free and relieved and feeling beautiful. Working surrounded by trees in the bush as a casual farm labourer for many years is definitely helping me to get inspiration for my work. The leaves change colour every day, the sky and clouds, the patterns of the surface on the tree, and the rocks. The clean air and wind dew on the leaf, sound of rain drops and birds singing.

I'm a dreamer, nature does its job I only need to just dream (and work!). I’m proud that I tried to keep making things even when I was not in a good place mentally or physically. Even just sitting in my little garage studio drawing, I dream about the next piece I want to make. I am proud that I try to look at things differently through my pottery. This helped me realize there is nothing to be sad about. In the end, I am privileged to be able to do what I like. The biggest reason is it’s a healing process for me to forget about all the complexities and focus on the moment. This might be why I can’t give up making my pottery.