THE SHOPHOUSE is pleased to participate in the 2024 edition of Art Collaboration Kyoto (ACK) at Booth GC18, featuring a body of paintings, sculptures, and ceramic works by artists Sam Creasey, Steve Harrison, Jaejun Lee, and Victor Lim Seaward.

Sam Creasey (b. 1993) is a British artist originally from Maidstone and now working in London. He received his MA in Painting from Royal College of Art in 2020. His paintings explore the synthesis distinctly British populaces have with their built surroundings and their contributing socio-political inclinations. The art of Sam Creasey emerges as a profound exploration of the intricate relationship between human emotion and the surrounding architecture, infrastructure, and socio-political systems. Through a distinctive blend of painting and ceramics, Creasey delves into the enigmatic realms of construction, gentrification, alienation, and British politics, weaving distinct narratives that are at once jaded and surreal.

Steve Harrison (b. 1967) is an English potter works and lives in London, UK. Harrison is known for his pots created by the salt glaze technique, which uses common salt for the glaze coating. First encountered ceramics at school at the age of 16, Harrison began to explore salt-glaze during his undergraduate study on ceramics at Middlesex University, encouraged by his mentor Mick Casson, Harrison continued his studies at Royal College of Art, London, graduated with MA Ceramics in 1993. With the support of the Crafts Council’s setting-up grant, he established his Enfield Studio in 1994, where he now bases his artistic activities.

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.

Victor Lim Seaward (b. 1988) is an artist living and working in London. He received his MA in Painting from Royal College of Art in 2018. His work is rooted in materiality, technological manufacture, and the agency of objects. Mining a broad spectrum of material culture, Seaward juxtaposes utilitarian materials with high-tech manufactured components and objects of historical significance - in order to investigate authorship, commodity, and the fluid nature of time and permanence.