Daye Kim/ Portraits

Daye Kim is a contemporary jewellery artist and sculptor based in London. She holds an MA in Jewellery & Metal from the Royal College of Art (2024) and a BA in Metalwork & Textiles from Korea. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including as a SCHMUCK 2024 finalist and in the Hunt Museum's Open Submission Exhibition (Ireland, 2024). Daye's practice combines traditional metalworking with digital fabrication processes, including ZBrush modelling and resin casting. She explores human relationships and identity through both wearable and sculptural forms, creating pieces that examine how connection shapes who we are.

"Face Face Face" explores human complexity through hundreds of individually cast brass faces, each distinct yet collectively forming a single portrait of our multifaceted nature. I'm drawn to how identity exists simultaneously as singular and plural. We contain countless selves, shaped by memory, relationships, and unseen emotional layers. Each miniature face carries its own character and vulnerability, but their accumulation reveals what a single portrait cannot: the contradictions, fragments, and multiplicities that make us human. This work asks viewers to see themselves not as one fixed image, but as an ongoing collection of faces we've worn and will become.