The Mentorship Award in collaboration with The Folco Collection
The TAGLI’s Mentorship Award, in collaboration with The Folco Collection, offers emerging artists a unique opportunity for growth and exposure. The award includes a year-long mentorship from both THE TAGLI team and The Folco Collection, providing guidance to develop their practice and navigate the market. The recipient also receives a £500 benefit and inclusion in a public facing, physical exhibition.
We are delighted to announce the winner of our 2024 Mentorship Award - Heeyoung Noh.
Heeyoung Noh is a figurative painter who explores colonial trauma and diaspora by reproducing body images from South Korea. Her practice entails a critical perspective toward diasporic identity and collective trauma as an Asian and Korean woman.
She uses the female's body image as the main material to reinforce the ethnic identity: the colour of skin and hair and the vestige of Ttaemiri, a Korean traditional way of bathing. She also explores the vanished stories of relationships between mothers and daughters in the past generation through the feminism lens to highlight the collective and historical trauma inflicted by the state and patriarchal power.
In 2024, she Heeyoung was shortlisted for New Contemporaries. She co-founded LAG (Lonely Asian Girls) Collective, in 2024.
