Rimin Lim is a Korean artist who studied and graduated with a BA course in Fine Art at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, United Kingdom in 2024.

Rimin Lim is fascinated by the idea of creating installation art with sculptural pieces as well as the detailed description and expression of the painting. It is meaningful for her to deal with her emotions and social/natural circumstances through art while living abroad as a foreigner and international artist in a changed environment. By describing the seascape and waves that contain her hometown and England, in her work, she expresses a new beginning and its optimism as beauty.

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The context of her current work was influenced by the phrase ‘The pain comes in waves’. Each person experiences different kinds of pain depending on their situation and their feelings. Examples of these pains include damage not only to humans but also to nature and animals caused by climate change and global warming, homesickness suffered by people living abroad, fatigue from human relationships, and others. Her work aims to express the pain that people suffer in waves and imply that the pain will pass just as the waves disappear over time.

She takes a particular interest in the theme of the environment and the human body. Because she was born on the island, she likes to explore the idea of using elements of nature such as beaches, waves, mountains, and forests. These subjects could contain climate changes, global warming, and others.

She is currently exploring the ideas and working on the theme of the body with different elements of environment, identity, and so on. She delves into the body as a main subject for her work to find different implications. A significant aspect of the body as one of the major elements in her art is for people to find their own identity while looking at the artwork made of various materials such as threads and strings that connect to each other.

She frequently uses a variety of materials for a collage such as photographs, fabrics, threads, and found objects. One of the most used materials recently is threads and different kinds of strings. She likes to experiment and play with different strings. The artistic process of weaving, plaiting, and stitching the materials reminds her to think that every human, nature, or society is connected to each other with their own identity, even in a seemingly complex and unusual appearance and environment.

She was inspired by Nicholas Hlobo's use of ribbons on different sculptures. He uses disparate materials such as satin ribbon and the inner tubes of car tyers to make intricate and seductively tactile sculptures and paintings. The satin ribbon symbolizes femininity and domesticity, in contrast to the more masculine materials that it binds together. As such, the ribbons, strings, or threads could have different implications depending on different artists and ideas, so she is aiming to explore and go forward with her own styles and ideas about it.

Her overall objective through the work she makes is to communicate with the audience and encourage people to think about the social issues that we are currently facing and change society. She hopes the viewers gain an insight into specific topics such as finding their own identity, environmental problems, and the social issues we are facing in our society through her artwork.