Key personnel: Soo-Min Shim

My research studies the artistic, cultural and social impact of diasporic, expatriate and immigrant Korean artists from and within the Anglophone West, with a focus on Australia and New Zealand. This thesis addresses the gap in Asian-Australian literature on the Korean community, also known as gyopo, by examining how Korean-Australian artists construct new ontologies and subjectivities that contest monolithic definitions of Korean and Australian art. Discussions within this thesis analyse the chronology of Korea and Australia’s cultural and artistic engagement to illustrate the significance of Korean-Australian artists who problematise the role of art in figuring the nation.