Listen to Castaways Curator Lyn DiCiero in conversation with Guest Artist Jina Lee. Born in South Korea, Jina studied at the Kaywon School of Arts in South Korea, followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Korea National University of Cultural Heritage and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Kookmin University in 2009.

She first exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea in Cottesloe and Bondi in 2015 and relocated to Perth. Now part of the Decade Club at Sculpture by the Sea in Cottesloe, she has been included in exhibitions and symposiums around the world and is director of Western Australia’s first stone sculpture symposium (www.waisss.com.au), held in 2022. 

Jina is one of very few artists working in stone in Western Australia. She forms a personal relationship with every stone she works with, believing that stone is not just a medium, but a living element that carries the Earth’s history within it.

Through her work, Jina seeks to remind us of our bond with the natural world and with one another, encouraging a moment of pause, reflection, and reconnection in an often fast-paced world.