Annie Areum Shin is an emerging Korean-Australian artist based in Sydney.
Her practice employs an ‘art for my sake’ approach to realise and elucidate the psychological processes and frameworks underlying her aesthetic choices and cognitive state. Through artmaking, she turns to queries of angst and internalisations, implications of applied psychology, and fragments of the self that were birthed from them.
Her focus on material exploration, abstraction and collage across painting, sculpture, and installation allow mimicry of her mental space and the dialogues that unfold within. The participatory and interactive domains of Shin’s recent works reflect her developing interest in sharing these self-discoveries with the public.
Shin completed her BFA and BSc at the University of New South Wales, and BSc(Hons) and MClinPsych at the Australian Catholic University. Her practice stems from the convergence of her disciplines across art and psychology.
Shin was awarded the Local Artist award for the Blacktown City Art Prize and exhibited across Sydney in group shows at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, UNSW Galleries, Kudos Gallery, AD Space, and The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre. Her ceramic sculpture has been acquired by the Blacktown City Council. Shin has also facilitated creative workshops for the Blacktown Arts Centre, Gallery Lane Cove, UNSW and Front-Up. Shin completed an internship with Kil.n.it Experimental Ceramics Studio and completed a curatorial project with The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre.
Top: ‘Haptic 1’ (2021).
Bottom: ‘Qualia’ Series in exhibition ‘my brain but not my brain’ (2020), Kudos Gallery, Sydney.