Mimi Joung
Process is all important to the artist. Mimi’s hands instinctively seek to resolve ideas through the act of making and follow a playful approach, reflecting her own life, what she reads and what she learns from other people and situations. She feels that her comfort with materials and techniques allow her to seek a deeper meaning in the historical context of ceramic materials, forms and colour.
Recently, the artist’s work has evolved to create sculptural pieces based on a slim novel called ‘In Watermelon Sugar’ by the American writer, Richard Brautigan. Cavaliero Finn was particularly drawn to these pieces, their bright colours and playfulness. Mimi creates these sculptures by tracing and clay taping each chapter of Brautigan’s surreal landscape which are reflections of displacement within imagined utopias and dystopias. Each sculpture relates to a chapter in the book, featuring the exact words from Brautigan’s novel.
Mimi has been awarded membership of the Royal Society of Sculptors. She has made site specific and project-based exhibitions inspired by her interest in exploring ideas surrounding her materials (clay) and their history. She completed an Artist in Residence program at the Banff Arts Centre, Canada, which celebrates conceptual art in Canada and allows international artists to explore the future of their ideas And also received various arts grants and commission from Korea, England, Wales, and other countries.
- Oriel y Parc Resident artist selected by Cardiff Museum and Safle, Arts Council Wales, 2010
- Banff Arts Centre, Scholarship, Future Idea of art residency, Arts council Canada, Sept 2006
- Grant for Arts, Art council North East, individual development grant, March 2006
- Rootstein Hopkins Foundation, Project Grant, 2006
- NCSP Grant, Symposium support, July 2006
- Grant for Arts, Art council North East, Travel grant, March 2006
- Designed and Made Industry Bursaries, European union, Northern rock foundation, 2006
- British Craft in Japan Travel Grant, Crafts council, UK investment & trade, 2006
- Next move, Craft council UK, Sunderland university, Arts council England, 2005 – 2007
- Faenza international Ceramic Art Competition, 2004/5
- Oversea student Bursaries, Royal college of Art, UK, 2004/5
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A Lot of Good Nights in Orange Moon from Venus, 2022£ 2,200.00View more details
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A Lot of Good Nights in Setting Grey Moon from Neptune, 2022 SoldView more details
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A Lot of Good Nights in Setting Grey Moon from Neptune, 2022£ 2,200.00View more details
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A Lot of Good Nights in White Moon from Pluto, 2022 SoldView more details
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A Lot of Good Nights in Yellow Moon from Saturn, 2022£ 2,200.00View more details
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A Lot of Goodnights in Rising Grey Moon from Neptune, 2022 SoldView more details
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Sunny Morning in Bubblegum Pink, 2022 SoldView more details
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Sunny Morning in English Rose Pink, 2022£ 695.00View more details
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Sunny Morning In Strawberry, 2022£ 795.00View more details
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Sunny Morning in Yellow , 2022 SoldView more details
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Sunny Morning in Yellow Gradient, 2022£ 795.00View more details
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A Lot of Good Nights Series, 2023 SoldView more details
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A World of Speculation, 2023 SoldView more details
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No Keeps Its Ear To Their Door, 2023 SoldView more details
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Point To One End Which Is Always Present, 2023 SoldView more details
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Remaining a Perpetual Possibility, 2023 SoldView more details
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Shadow of yes and no - W 2, 2023£ 530.00View more details
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Shadow of yes and no - W 3, 2023£ 530.00View more details
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Shadow of yes and no - W 4, 2023£ 530.00View more details
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Shadow of yes and no - W I, 2023£ 530.00View more details
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The girl with lantern under the silver moon, 2023 SoldView more details
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Towards The Door We Never Opened, 2023£ 2,970.00View more details
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What Might Have Been is an Abstraction, 2023£ 2,970.00View more details
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Yes Has A Task, 2023£ 2,970.00View more details
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And he knew that it was mine, 2024£ 1,640.00View more details
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Heaving the needles (three piece sculpture), 2024£ 2,080.00View more details
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I watered it in fears, 2024£ 1,420.00View more details
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In the morning, glad I see, 2024£ 1,420.00View more details
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It grew both day and night, 2024£ 1,210.00View more details
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Little or Nothing, Water Moon, 2024 SoldView more details
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Night and morning with my tears, 2024£ 990.00View more details
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Nobody see us, Earth Moon , 2024£ 2,960.00View more details
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Perfectly Voiceless, Air Moon , 2024£ 2,960.00View more details
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The leafy bedding (two piece sculpture), 2024£ 2,080.00View more details
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The small grains make room, moon mushrooms (two piece sculpture), 2024£ 2,300.00View more details
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We are edible (two piece sculpture), 2024£ 1,200.00View more details
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I knew who the lantern belonged to, 2021 SoldView more details
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I saw a lantern far away, 2021£ 3,180.00View more details
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What is the late November doing?, Autumn, Home / 고향, 2021£ 7,600.00View more details
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So here I am, Winter, Home / 고향, 2021 SoldView more details
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In my beginning, Spring, Home / 고향, 2021 SoldView more details
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In that open field, Summer, Home / 고향, 2021 SoldView more details
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Necklace, 2019/2020£ 1,300.00View more details
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Shack, 2019/2020£1735.00View more details
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Strawberry, 2019/2020£ 1,740.00View more details
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Charley's Idea, 2019£ 3,190.00View more details
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20 Years of Cavaliero Finn
Revisit Cavaliero Finn's landmark 20th anniversary exhibition at Stockwell Studio 8 May - 1 Aug 2024In 2004, Juliana Cavaliero and Debra Finn curated their first exhibition as Cavaliero Finn in a home in South London and they haven't looked back since.Read more
For this exhibition, Cavaliero Finn returned to its South London roots to celebrate its 20th birthday at Stockwell Studio. The exhibition featured a wide range of artists who have shown with the gallery over the last 20 years including work by our current portfolio of artists and work from some of our earlier artists, like painters Holly Frean, Daisy Cook and Caroline Popham, paper artist Thurle Wright, designer makers Sam Edkins and Deborah Bowness, and sculptors Tom Stogdon, Danuta Solowiej, Merete Rasmussen and Patricia Volk who returned to the gallery as guest artists for this show. The exhibition also included an installation by textile artist Isabelle Fletcher and new work by Lise Herud Braten, the most recent additions to the Cavaliero Finn portfolio.
Revisit this exhibition online now.
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Missed us at Collect 2024?
Our presentation is available to view and purchase online 28 Feb - 31 Mar 2024Missed us at Collect? See the collection and installation images here. For Collect 2024 at Somerset House Cavaliero Finn presented The Alchemy of Nature at the fair featuring work by...Read more -
Winter - The weakening eye of day
Gallery 12, Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2JE - 22nd-26th November, 11am - 7pm Wed-Sat 11am-4pm Sun 22 - 26 Nov 2023In November 2023, Cavaliero Finn presented a selection of artworks at Cromwell Place chosen to evoke winter in different ways, whether it’s capturing the essence of it through light and colour, the sense of decay through texture and material, or the sense of beauty hope and renewal through composition and context. The Winter exhibition was dedicated to artist Judith Tucker who died suddenly on Monday November 13th 2023.Read more -
Elemental Lines
Cavaliero Finn at Ballroom Arts 152A High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5AQ UK 8 - 18 Jun 2023This exhibition, which coincided with the Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk, took place in Ballroom Arts a beautiful space overlooking the North Sea. Elemental Lines examined how the lines of the...Read more
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Artefact - Design Centre Chelsea Harbour
The contemporary craft fair 9 - 13 May 2023Cavaliero Finn spent a great week exhibiting at the Design Centre Chelsea Harbour in May at Artefact which was organised as part of London Craft Week 2023. Our curated presentation...Read more -
Collect Art Fair 2023
1 - 5 Mar 2023At the start of March we presented the work of 14 of our artists at the Crafts Council's international contemporary craft fair, Collect 2023 at Somerset House in London. The...Read more -
Hint - Cavaliero Finn at Gallery 475
475 Fulham Road, London SW6 1HL 6 - 18 Dec 2022Cavaliero Finn is pleased to announce news of its next exhibition, Hint, a group show featuring pairings of two and three dimensional art works that echo each other in some way, whether it's a hint of colour, form or pattern or even subject matter.Read more -
Artefact 2022
The contemporary craft fair at Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, London 10 - 15 May 2022Artefact, is a contemporary craft fair which brings the joy of the handmade to an audience of designers, architects, collectors and enthusiasts, illustrating the increasing importance of craft to the interior design industry. It features objects of astonishing artistic merit courtesy of a host international galleries in the Design Avenue. An accompanying programme of specialist talks and demonstrations helps bring the contemporary craft to life.Read more
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Collect Art Fair at Somerset House, London
The leading contemporary craft and design fair 25 Feb - 6 Mar 2022Cavaliero Finn was delighted to return to London's beautiful Somerset House for Collect which took place this year from 25-27 February 2022 with previews on 23-24 February 2022. Cavaliero Finn presented work by 15 artists at Collect including work by Edmond Byrne, Matthew Chambers, Simon Gaiger, Ashraf Hanna, Björk Haraldsdóttir, Ikuko Iwamoto, Mimi Joung, Sun Kim, Nicholas Lees, Cecilia Moore, Frances Priest, Daniel Reynolds, Katharine Swailes, Annie Turner and Jacy Wall.Read more -
Crafting a Difference at the Argentine Ambassador's Official Residence
Part of London Craft Week 4 - 10 Oct 2021Crafting a Difference at the Official Residence of the Argentine Ambassador in Belgrave Square, London runs from October 4th -10th. The exhibition celebrates outstanding international contemporary craft set within the magnificent architecture, décor and fabric of the Argentine Ambassador’s Official Residence, in the frame of London Craft Week 2021, with support from the Crafts Council, QEST, Loewe Foundation, Michelangelo Foundation, Cockpit Arts, Design Centre Chelsea Harbour and Artegian Design.Read more -
ARTEFACT: The Contemporary Craft Fair
22 - 29 Jun 2021Attracting top designers, architects, collectors and art lovers, Artefact will feature an impressive roll call of contemporary craft and visual arts galleries including; Oxford Ceramics, Katie Jones, Lloyd Choi Gallery,...Read more -
CRAFTING A DIFFERENCE – COLLECT EDITION
12 - 30 Apr 2021From Monday the 12th of April until the 30th of April, Crafting a Difference at SoShiro will be receiving visitors to the exhibition, in person. Now that COVID restrictions have...Read more
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Crafting a Difference at SoShiro – London Art Fair Edition
22 Jan - 15 Feb 2021We are proud to be part of Crafting a Difference at SoShiro – a physical exhibition of innovative craftsmanship housed in a beautiful townhouse in Marylebone, London. Curated by Brian...Read more -
Collect 2020
27 Feb - 1 Mar 2020Earlier this year Cavaliero Finn exhibited at Collect, the Crafts Council’s international art fair for modern craft and design, held at Somerset House, Collect’s new venue, showcasing the work of...Read more
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And he knew that it was mine, 2024£ 1,640.00
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Heaving the needles (three piece sculpture), 2024£ 2,080.00
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I watered it in fears, 2024£ 1,420.00
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In the morning, glad I see, 2024£ 1,420.00
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It grew both day and night, 2024£ 1,210.00
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Little or Nothing, Water Moon, 2024 Sold
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Night and morning with my tears, 2024£ 990.00
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Nobody see us, Earth Moon , 2024£ 2,960.00
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Perfectly Voiceless, Air Moon , 2024£ 2,960.00
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The leafy bedding (two piece sculpture), 2024£ 2,080.00
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The small grains make room, moon mushrooms (two piece sculpture), 2024£ 2,300.00
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We are edible (two piece sculpture), 2024£ 1,200.00
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A Lot of Good Nights Series, 2023 Sold
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A World of Speculation, 2023 Sold
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No Keeps Its Ear To Their Door, 2023 Sold
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Point To One End Which Is Always Present, 2023 Sold
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Remaining a Perpetual Possibility, 2023 Sold
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Shadow of yes and no - W 2, 2023£ 530.00
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Shadow of yes and no - W 3, 2023£ 530.00
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Shadow of yes and no - W 4, 2023£ 530.00
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Shadow of yes and no - W I, 2023£ 530.00
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The girl with lantern under the silver moon, 2023 Sold
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Towards The Door We Never Opened, 2023£ 2,970.00
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What Might Have Been is an Abstraction, 2023£ 2,970.00
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Yes Has A Task, 2023£ 2,970.00
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A Lot of Good Nights in Orange Moon from Venus, 2022£ 2,200.00
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A Lot of Good Nights in Setting Grey Moon from Neptune, 2022£ 2,200.00
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A Lot of Good Nights in Yellow Moon from Saturn, 2022£ 2,200.00
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Sunny Morning in Bubblegum Pink, 2022 Sold
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Sunny Morning in English Rose Pink, 2022£ 695.00
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Sunny Morning In Strawberry, 2022£ 795.00
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Sunny Morning in Yellow Gradient, 2022£ 795.00
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I knew who the lantern belonged to, 2021 Sold
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I saw a lantern far away, 2021£ 3,180.00
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What is the late November doing?, Autumn, Home / 고향, 2021£ 7,600.00
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So here I am, Winter, Home / 고향, 2021 Sold
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Necklace, 2019/2020£ 1,300.00
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Shack, 2019/2020£1735.00
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Strawberry, 2019/2020£ 1,740.00
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Charley's Idea, 2019£ 3,190.00