Born in rural South Korea, Inhye Ji spent her early childhood living with her grandmother before moving to Busan, where she began studying art from a young age. A naturally quiet child who often found it difficult to express herself through words, drawing became a place of comfort and a means of understanding the world around her. This early relationship with observation and visual expression continues to underpin her practice today.
Ji later attended a specialist design high school before studying Visual Communication Design at university. Following graduation, she worked within fashion and branding, though she remained uncertain about her long-term creative direction. A significant turning point came in 2023 when she joined Onion Company and encountered Fabrikr and Chicory, experiences that introduced her to new ways of thinking about objects, materials and making. Through the development of works for Chicory Hotel, she discovered a deeper connection to the act of creating and began to recognise a path towards an independent artistic practice.
Since beginning to work with epoxy resin in 2024, Ji has developed a body of work that explores the relationships between material behaviour, emotion and natural processes. Drawn initially to the warmth she perceived within an aged block of yellowed epoxy, she became fascinated by the material's capacity to hold traces of time, gravity and chance.
Her works often take the form of organic, light-filled structures that appear to grow, lean, cluster and support one another. Inspired by observations from nature, from grape stems and fallen branches to changing seasons and the quiet illumination of living organisms. Ji creates sculptures that embrace instability and transformation rather than resisting them.
Working at the intersection of sculpture, light and material experimentation, Ji continues to expand a practice centred on atmosphere, memory and the subtle relationships that exist between forms, materials and people. Although still at an early stage in the development of her independent practice, her work reveals a distinctive voice and an evolving sculptural language grounded in observation, vulnerability and transformation.
Born in rural South Korea, Inhye Ji spent her early childhood living with her grandmother before moving to Busan, where she began studying art from a young age. A naturally quiet child who often found it difficult to express herself through words, drawing became a place of comfort and a means of understanding the world around her. This early relationship with observation and visual expression continues to underpin her practice today.Ji later attended a specialist design high school before studying Visual Communication Design at university. Following graduation, she worked within fashion and branding, though she remained uncertain about her long-term creative direction. A significant turning point came in 2023 when she joined Onion Company and encountered Fabrikr and Chicory, experiences that introduced her to new ways of thinking about objects, materials and making. Through the development of works for Chicory Hotel, she discovered a deeper connection to the act of creating and began to recognise a path towards an independent artistic practice.Since beginning to work with epoxy resin in 2024, Ji has developed a body of work that explores the relationships between material behaviour, emotion and natural processes. Drawn initially to the warmth she perceived within an aged block of yellowed epoxy, she became fascinated by the material's capacity to hold traces of time, gravity and chance.Her works often take the form of organic, light-filled structures that appear to grow, lean, cluster and support one another. Inspired by observations from nature, from grape stems and fallen branches to changing seasons and the quiet illumination of living organisms. Ji creates sculptures that embrace instability and transformation rather than resisting them.Working at the intersection of sculpture, light and material experimentation, Ji continues to expand a practice centred on atmosphere, memory and the subtle relationships that exist between forms, materials and people. Although still at an early stage in the development of her independent practice, her work reveals a distinctive voice and an evolving sculptural language grounded in observation, vulnerability and transformation.
