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SIWA president holds exhibition

By Paul Kerry

Published : Jan. 18, 2011 - 17:42

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The president of Seoul International Women’s Association is staging her first solo exhibition “37 Degrees” at the Insa Arts Center, Insadong, from Jan. 19-24.

The second non-Korean to get a BA degree in Fine Arts from Seoul’s Hongik University, Lily Joenoes van Bunnik will display about 55 of her vibrantly-colored paintings.

Bunnik, from Indonesia, took up art when she moved to Korea in 2005 and depicts her experiences as a foreigner, a student, a wife and a mother. 
Lily Joenoes van Bunnik (left) Lily Joenoes van Bunnik (left)

Entry is free but proceeds from painting sales will be donated to the Dilts Foundation (www.diltsfoundation.org).

Opening times are 10 a.m.-7 p.m. For details e-mail liljyb@gmail.com or call (010) 8839-9793. 

SIWA (www.siwapage.com) is having a sign-up day for membership and classes on Jan. 19 from 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. at the Grand Ambassador Hotel, Seoul.

By Hannah Stuart-Leach  (hannahsl@heraldcorp.com)