A memoir in images from the iconic South Korean Sally Rooney illustrator and author of Starry Night, Blurry Dreams.
Depression and creativity, love and family, books and music: this personal and vulnerable memoir by the iconic South Korean illustrator explores her life from the ages of seventeen to thirty-three through image, text and poetry. From what nearly broke her to what saved her, everyone will find
something to comfort them in Henn Kim's world.
Everything I feel from reading and listening to music
I commit to paper in black pen
And gradually, blot by blot, stroke by stroke,
A new mode of expression emerges.
At this point, it's just scribbles in a diary
Not yet reborn as 'Henn Kim' of the future
I Need Art
Henn Kim
A memoir in images from the iconic South Korean Sally Rooney
illustrator and author of Starry Night, Blurry DreamsMaterial available
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Bloomsbury Publishing October 2023 Hardback, 164 x 155 '16.99 448 pagesAbout the Author
Henn Kim was born (1982) and raised in Ulsan, South Korea where she lived until she was 18. After moving to Seoul at 19, she focused on music and art, and often designed cover art for indie bands in Seoul. She worked at a design company as a graphic designer, but decided to follow her own path as an illustrator/artist and has been following her dream since 2015.
Since then, her work has been commissioned by the BBC, UNICEF, Nike, Bottega Veneta, Snapchat and TED, featured in GQ, The Big Issue, Vogue and on book covers, and exhibited in Hong Kong and Korea.
