Come on in (어서오세요) invites viewers into Halla Kim’s experience of living and making art in an unfamiliar place. This exhibition marks her first solo show in Kepa Kurl/Esperance, one year after moving to the region, drawing on personal memories and experiences of settling into a new environment.
Through ceramics and participatory activities, she reflects on the challenges of settling, finding her place, and the quiet connections formed along the way. Her works transform vessels into bodies, creating a space where personal stories and human gestures meet.
Opening: Tues 7 April at 6pm.
Drinks available to be purchased.
All welcome.
Exhibition : Wed 8 April to Sat 2 May.
10am to 4pm Tues to Fri // noon to 4pm Sat
Artist Talk with Rosie Henderson & Halla Kim: Thursday 23 April at 6pm. More info and to register.
Nail Art Day: More info to come
Ceramics Workshop: More info to come.
Artist Bio
Halla Kim is a contemporary artist who works with sculpture, participatory activities, and ceramics. She looks at women, craft, and nature as connected areas, exploring how beings that have long been apart or socially excluded meet and influence each other.
While making ceramic pieces, Halla began to see each object as a person rather than just a vessel. She understands her work as a way of creating individual forms, embedding her personal stories in each sculptural body she shapes.
Selected exhibitions include her solo show Connected in a Circle (2024, Gallery DOS, Seoul) and group exhibitions such as Mishrranu-wa Teum (2025, Tokyo, Japan), On Boarding (2023-24, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center / Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul), and Contemporary Ceramic Art in Asia (2023-24, Yanggu Porcelain Museum, Korea). She also took part in the Global Youth Creative Residency (2023, Jeju, Korea).
Thank you to the State Government of WA for the funding through the Regional Arts Venues Support program supported by Royalties for Regions through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries and the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, enabling us to expand our artistic programming into our second gallery the Art Room.