Works in Show
To be Updated After the Opening Ceremony
Artist Biography
Park holds a BFA and MFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, majoring in Painting (Hons), 2003. She has exhibited regularly at OREXART since her graduation and has participated in numerous group exhibitions and award finalist shows in New Zealand, Australia, and the USA. She was awarded the Michael Evans Award in 2015, Highly Commended 2D Winner of Lysaght Watt Art Awards in 2018, and the Walker and Hall Premier Award in 2021.
She has also been a painting teacher at Westlake Boys High School since 2009
Artist Statement
Korean-Kiwi artist Joon-Hee Park spent many hours as a child in her late father’s studio, watching him paint and playing with his collection of oddities and art materials. Surrealism continues to shape her practice, which she approaches as a way of exploring and mapping her psyche. An introvert by nature, Park uses painting as a space of retreat—an inward world where she quietly navigates feelings of solitude and emotional distance. Drawing from a childhood shaped between two cultures, Park weaves together memories of favourite toys, fragments of dreams and lived experience.
Her dreamlike spaces become a form of escape, echoing an inner world where loneliness and imagination coexist. She is particularly drawn to the way memories blur and shift over time, like dreams that soften at the edges yet remain emotionally vivid. Amusing yet poignant, her dreamlike compositions resist fixed meaning, instead inviting viewers to form their own connections and interpretations within the layered narratives she creates.
Sanctuary by Joon-Hee Park
Joon Hee Park
Artist
