For the latest instalment of my column highlighting some of the most exciting emerging artists working in the UK and globally, I spoke to Yurim Gough, a talented fine art ceramicist who merges the draughtsmanship and gender fluid mind-set of Grayson Perry with the autobiographical honesty of Tracey Emin.   

Yurim was born in South Korea where she had a successful early career as a shoe designer, working in Tokyo and London, before moving to the UK where she pursued a career as a fine artist and ended up settling in Cambridge where she has a studio.  

Yurim has a solo exhibition, Vain Ego, coming up at APT Gallery London in May 2022, and is also working on a new series Gender-Fluid for a group show at the prestigious Fondation d’entreprise Bernardaud  in Limoges, the famed centre of ceramics where Picasso made some of his most iconic ceramic works. 

The solo exhibition at APT gallery will be the result of 6 years work triggered by Gough’s breast cancer diagnosis in 2016 and subsequent treatment and recovery. During this challenging time, Gough sought solace in her work, expressing the emotions and experiences of her cancer treatment through life drawing and ceramics.