Heeyoung Noh is a South Korean painter living and working in Glasgow. She completed her MA in Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art in 2024, having previously graduated with a BA in Western Paintings from Seoul’s Sungshin Women’s University in 2019. Noh was the recipient of The Tagli Mentorship Award 2024, in collaboration with the Folco Collection. Her nude, anonymised, female figures epitomise the complexities and precarities of diasporic identity, speaking to Noh’s own lived experience of otherness as an East Asian woman residing in Scotland. Situated within scenes depicting ttaemiri - communal Korean bathhouse culture that arose under Japanese colonial rule in response to accusations of being unclean and uncouth - Noh explores the generational trauma bonds that exists amongst a family’s female lineage. Water droplets serve as a visual stand-in for these subconscious scars of systemic, state-sponsored oppression and a pervading, patriarchal social structure, silently passed down from grandmothers to mothers, mothers to daughters during each scrubbing session.