Jasmine Kok works with a range of mediums, from wood and stone carving to textile sculpture and ceramics. Her pieces explore balance and harmony, often finding patterns and beauty, for example, out of the chaos of scattered leaves or the painful connotations of corsets.

Kok studied fine art in Kuala Lumpur and London and has shown her work throughout the UK and Southeast Asia. In 2003 she was awarded a year long artist’s residency in Rimbun Dahan, Selangor, a period which profoundly altered her artistic direction, inspiring her to produce delicate carved and ceramic work which interacted with the natural environment surrounding her. Her work is characterized by great versatility and elegant intensity, as she brings a unique and complex approach to themes such as the beauty of nature and female sensuality.

Kok’s use of materials is highly skilled and her choices play into the themes which run through her work. Concerned with the transience of nature, leaves and plants are recreated in immutable marble and clay, whilst feminine forms are deftly rendered in the luxurious fabrics which simultaneously exude, dictate and confine notions of female sensuality.