Dr Choi Keeryong
Job title:
Teaching Fellow
Role:
Exchange Coordinator - Design School
Office:
Hunter Building, Room 3B
Office hours:
Monday - Wednesday, 9am - 5pm
Biography
In 2015, he finished his practice-led PhD research at Edinburgh College of Art. He is a member of the RAFT Research Group. His research focuses on the concept of invented cultural authenticity, the historical and symbolic meanings associated with craft materials, and their appreciation across different cultures. His research-based glass artwork has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Research interests
- Contemporary craft
- Glass and ceramic
- Digital crafting
- Bicultural identity
- Cultural uncanny
Choi’s current specialist elective courses are Digital Crafting and Objects of Desire, he has also developed the MA Craft Programme. He teaches across several undergraduate courses within Design School and is Course Organiser of Digital Crafting, Product Design: New Making, and Product Design: Fundamentals. He delivers lectures, seminars and workshops that contextualise the field of contemporary craft. He specialises in glass blowing, kiln forming and glass casting; which he presents through studio-based teaching. He has interdisciplinary experience, in the areas of ceramics, CAD and product design. He aims to assist his students in developing innovative and experimental studies in the field of contemporary craft.
He welcomes PhD applications from students interested in working in the field of contemporary glass and ceramics and other craft related fields.
Find out more about Objects of Desire
Find out more about Digital Crafting
Choi teaches on the BA Product Design, teaching undergraduate students on a range of courses:
Find out more about Product Design 1A: Fundamentals
Find out more about New Making
Research
Research
Choi has explored notion of unhomeliness by creating a series of glass objects that possess ’strangeness’ and could not find a sense of belonging within the existing (Korean or British) visual culture. His research outputs include papers for peer reviewed journals such as Craft Research and the MDPI Special Arts Edition. His research-based glass artwork has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at SOFA Chicago in the USA, the International Glass Prize 2015 in Belgium, Collect in London, the Toyama Art Glass Museum in Japan, and The Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass in Germany. His artwork was also selected as a finalist for the Loewe Craft Prize 2023. His glass artworks are part of permanent collections at major institutions such as the Corning Museum of Glass and Imagine Museum in the USA, the National Museum of Scotland and the City of Edinburgh Council in Edinburgh, the Oriental Museum in Durham, and the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, UK.