The finalists selected for Culture and Creativity Award 2022–23 have carved a career for themselves in arts and culture. We are looking for individuals who can demonstrate their artistic ingenuity, influence and creativity.
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※ The order is in alphabetical order by name.
Fashion designer and tutor
Gyouree Kim is a fashion designer. She studied in London in order to explore deeper into her design identity and research sustainable fashion methodologies. She believes fashion can be used as a visual narrative for her to translate human society into desirable, valuable and importantly imaginable objects that people can interact with. Her collection is a detailed, intricately layered quality array of garments through corset elements and a mix of historical and contemporary aesthetics. The collectable and valuable nature of her collection distances itself from fast fashion and the consumerist society of today. She values refined craftsmanship and makes use of mediums that would otherwise be overlooked or discarded as waste materials.
In 2022, she won the award from Big design award, where she showcased her first collection in Tokyo Fashion Week. Her second collection will be shown at London Fashion Week. She was commissioned to design and make clothes for the main dancers of Sam smith's new music video, she also works consistently with artists and musicians. Currently she is working as a designer and also as a teacher, tutoring students how to approach design and make garments.
Assistant professor, School of Photography & Motion Picture, Kyungil University
Shinwook Kim is an award-winning artist based in South Korea and Europe.
He was awarded the esteemed British Institution Award by the UK’s most prestigious art institute, the Royal Academy of Art. After receiving his master’s from the Royal College of Art, the University of Oxford decided to make two pieces from his work The Night Watch part of their permanent collection at Oriel College.
In 2022, he was awarded the 12th IL WOO Photograph Award presented by the Hanjin Group (Korean Air), the most renowned photography prize in Korea, and held a solo exhibition. In September 2022, he was also invited as an award winner for the 20th ManifestO Photo Festival in Toulouse, France where Shinwook held a solo exhibition.
Associate Professor, UNIST (Ulsan National Institue of Science and Technology)
Yunwoo Jeong has a MA of RCA Vehicle design, currently design major professor at UNIST which is one of four Korean national institute of science technology. Following his BA of SNU, he designed main exterior of Chevrolet Cruze (2006) at GM. After RCA, he participated in several future car design projects with title of the first Asian Bentley designer (2008). Subsequently, he got scouted by Hyundai (2010) for Genesis exterior design workgroup leader (G80, EQ900).
In 2014 he was offered a professor position at UNIST, aiming professional design practice. He ran many innovative design industry projects with global firms such as LG, Hyundai, Kia, Renault, FCA, Mando and Yangpeng. He is also in charge of design for Hyperloop national R&D project. With these achievements, he won ten World Top 3 Design Awards; IF (2014, 2016, 2019, 2020), Red Dot (2014,2015,2021) and IDEA (2017,2019,2020). He was chosen as a Next Generation Design Leader from South Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy where he also received a few Recognition Awards.
Recently he has been interested in House music DJ, which led him to actively take part at it via performing at lounge and club venue.
He has mastered professional practice and academia in Korea, US and UK, his performance for innovative design indicates British Creative spirit.