The Muse Gallery is pleased to present Thread Your Way Through, an exhibition of new drawings and installation by London-based artist Sun Ju Lee. This exhibition builds on Lee’s exploration of line and material, extending her practice into the field of textiles as a site for conceptual and material experimentation.

Lee’s practice often begins with shadows captured in photographs, ephemeral traces of situations within the places we inhabit. Interpreted across printmaking, drawing, glass, and textiles, these images become intermedial works that reconstruct and reimagine the familiar. In doing so, Lee invites viewers to reflect on their relationship with everyday environments and the memories embedded within them.

At the heart of this exhibition lies her current project Thread Drawing, in which the line — a recurring and defining element in her practice — is reimagined through thread, functioning both as a structural form and a performative gesture. Here, thread becomes a way of navigating: capturing overlooked details, mapping spaces, and opening new pathways of perception. Ephemeral impressions are transformed into layered textile compositions and a large-scale installation. Through knitting and hand stitching, spontaneous gestures are translated into material form, merging the immediacy of mark-making with the deliberate pace of textile processes.

Across residencies and research trips, Lee adapts her practice to specific contexts, incorporating new materials, techniques, and perspectives. Her recent residency at Buckinghamshire New University (2022–24) provided an intensive engagement with textile processes, enabling her to refine thread as a medium of drawing and to expand her investigations into layered surfaces, spatial narratives, and non-linear temporality. This approach ensures that her practice remains dynamic, responsive, and deeply rooted in place.

Thread Your Way Through positions textiles as a vital language within Lee’s intermedial practice, opening new dialogues between materiality and subject, surface and structure, and situation and place.