• Yunhee translates literary elements into ceramic forms
• Her pieces carry recurring symbols of life, death and passage
• Her process of slip casting, hand building and hand painting is guided by her drawings

Yunhee Lee's porcelain vases, vessels and reliefs are often accentuated with striking sculptural depth. Originally drawn to art conservation, she had always imagined a life devoted to preserving fragile histories. That trajectory shifted when Yunhee encountered Grayson Perry’s ceramics in Japan. "I realised that clay could hold contemporary narrative as powerfully as paint or text," she says. Educated across ceramics and glass, art history, anatomy, metal casting and digital modelling, she developed a practice rooted more in structure and symbolism than in inherited technique. Yunhee's recurring figures, girls, skeletons, horses, knights and flowers, move through allegorical landscapes shaped by literary influence and personal memory. In her hands, clay is not simply material, but a vessel through which passage, transformation and quiet longing take form.