Emerging Visual Artist Residency 2026 awarded to Soorin Shin
We’re delighted to announce that Soorin Shin has been awarded the 2026 Emerging Visual Artist Residency at Cove Park. This early-career residency enables an emerging visual artist based in Scotland to develop new work at an important point in their career. During the residency, the artist is part of a changing community of national and international artists specialising in a wide variety of art forms.
Soorin’s work explores femininity, foregrounding her Korean heritage as a central reference. Inspired by cultural and historical artefacts such as knots, vessels and patchwork, she delves into themes of sisterhood, motherhood and feminism. She predominantly works with sculpture, shaping organic, curvy and wobbly motifs that echo natural forms, channelling eco-feminist imaginations.
Enmeshing digital technologies – 3D modelling and printing – with hands-on practices such as casting and ceramics, her practice embraces the fluidity and flexibility of intersectionality. Eschewing a dichotomous approach to digital and physical experiences, she intuitively intertwines the two, inhabiting the grey space of the ‘in-between’. This hybrid methodology reflects multifaceted female identities and is deeply inspired by Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto.
Born in Incheon, South Korea, she is now based in Glasgow. After graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 2020, she founded Wobbly Digital, a 3D printing & digital art studio. She now works under the name Studio Soorin Shin following the introduction of ceramics into her practice in 2026.
She was part of the Creative Lab Residencies 2022–24 at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, and was the recipient of the Jorum Craft Award 2024 from Craft Scotland. Recent group exhibitions include Dundee Design Festival (2024) and Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh (2023), and she will exhibit this year with the Travelling Gallery at various locations across Scotland, including Edinburgh Art Festival.
Soorin says:
‘During the residency, I plan to develop my hand-building skills in ceramic sculpture using plaster moulds made from 3D prints, further strengthening my visual language by merging digital technologies with hands-on sculptural practices. I will continue exploring my core subject matter of eco-feminism through the development of a new work titled Braided Vessel.’
Alumni of this residency programme include Olivia Priya Foster Saturn Akin, Matthew Arthur Williams, Sekai Machache, Aman Sandhu, Ashanti Harris, and Rhona Mühlebach.
