Growing up in Korea Yoon dreamed of being one of the blonde haired, blue-eyed beauties. As an attempt to live out her fantasy she creates light-hearted and heavily stylised images of young Asian girls enhanced to fit this criteria. By combining the extremely different Eastern and Western cultures in her art she attempts to make her audience question their preconceptions. In addition, Yoon’s work is intricate in detail with many layers of meaning. Months of research into every aspect ensure that nothing you see is without significance.

Yoon presents with eight blonde fairy tale heroines from the stories of the Brother’s Grimm, ranging from Rapunzel and Cinderella to Little Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty. The mixing of Western culture and Eastern religion is the axis of Yoon’s work. The landscape is based upon an old Korean painting Called, ‘Mong you do won do’ dating back to 1447 representing a Utopian peach forest as seen in a dream by a Korean Prince, an ideal setting for the heroines of our Western Fairytales. All of the costumes were designed by Yoon and are based on traditional Korean dress and fashioned from authentic fabric. As with every aspect of her work each tiny detail has been thought about and holds its own meaning. Nature is a prominent feature in Yoon’s work, mainly through beautifully detailed flowers. The artwork of European Old Masters from the French palace of Fontainebleau (c.1528) were also of great inspiration to Yoon. Months of research into the significance of posture and hand gestures within these paintings are evident in the characters of her work.