Korean born Yiwon Park lives and works in Sydney and Seoul.She was a finalist in the Tim Olson Drawing prize  over four years between 2009 and 2013 as she completed her graduate and masters degrees.  Yiwon has built an impressive CV including her 2015 exhibition Mythical Truth at Mosman Art gallery at Mosman Art Gallery.  She was winner of the Korea-Australia Art Foundation Prize in 2013.

She writes: 'My art practice materializes the process of exploring individual and shared insecurities. The concept of the ‘unknown familiar’ is a method to explore subjective image making within both the individual sensitivity and the collective unconscious. Autobiographical narratives are explored through personal symbols in drawing, painting, sculpture and installation. I consider myself as a subject matter and also a medium to engage with various realms of reality. Metaphoric tales through both personal and archetypal symbols explore the feelings of insecurity in otherness and between-ness. Creating alter egos by disguising my personal symbols is my own rite to ‘discovering my own myths’ in my time.'

 Mythical truth: Black swan

The series of drawings and the drawing animation project exploring personal narrative that delves into superstition and religion, melancholia and mourning relates to feeling of insecurity. Black swan as a metaphor of the uncertainty, visual narratives weave the feelings reflecting questions about conflicting identity, social issues such as man made disaster and humanity.