SEONG CHO Contemplating the Void XVI, 2025 60x145cm, multi woodcut print handprinted on handmade Korean mulberry paper
Seong Cho’s exhibition Earth Myth
7-28 th February
Art Atrium 48, level1/48 Alfred Street Milsons Point.
Hours Wed-Fri 12-5pm, Sat 12-4pm
Art Atrium 48 is proud to present Earth Myth, a series of woodcut prints by Korean-born Australian artist Seong Cho, developed during and inspired by artist residencies in Italy and Greece in 2025. The works explore stories embedded in nature, which echo through time and intertwine with human creation. Surrounded by layers of archaeology, history, culture, tradition and modernity, Cho reflects on how earth’s elements shape landscapes and how human hands build civilisations. Drawing on ancient archaeology, Renaissance architecture, the contemporary world, and her own East Asian cultural heritage, the series examines cultural identity and our search for meaning through the stories of the past.
Cho combines contemporary abstraction with traditional East Asian materials and methods to create distinctive woodblock prints on paper. Her work emulates natural forces; wind-carved lines, shifting light, rippling water and twisting trees, using abstract forms that move beyond realism, narrative and language. Rather than illustrating specific myths or places, the prints suggest how memory and cultural knowledge feel, shift, evolve and erode, inviting viewers into a meditative space to reflect on identity, existence, time and emotion.
Cho’s practice begins in direct engagement with nature: she makes her own brushes from sticks and leaves, carves each woodblock by hand, and prints using natural pigments on traditional Korean handmade mulberry paper. By combining Renaissance rhythm with East Asian techniques, Earth Myth connects Cho’s cross-cultural lived experience with an abstract visual language grounded in material, memory and place.
SEONG CHO Earth Myth I, 2025 120x120cm, multi woodcut print handprinted on handmade Korean mulberry paper
