My inspiration often comes while I am sleeping. Many times, a clear piece of jewelry pops into my mind just by observing the world around me, looking at a picture or just watching several forms of my daily life. I may see a simple line, a luminaire or a building full of curves and immediately imagine it in a jewelry form. I am very much inspired by nature and its organic materials. What nature offers cannot be done by human hands.
Read MoreWith a degree in Classical Studies, and strongly influenced by ancient history, surrealism and goth/steampunk imagery, Christine works to create jewelry that challenges one’s perspective of adornment. Christine is inspired by movement, by abstract shapes, by themes of whimsy or darkness. She works with simple tools and time-honored traditions to bring life to the metal, paying homage to the artisans of long ago who inspire her work.
Read MoreMy design is influenced by the raw materials surrounding me. I create new worlds from the limited resources and find tremendous wealth in the soil, the rotting logs, wasp's nest, branches of the trees, broken objects, old plastic bags, it can be anything. I refer to the material and not to the object, study it, understand its properties and use it to create small but complete scenes of staged nature, ex-wild. I believe that through design - as a tool - I can make a change, make a difference, affect people.
Read MoreTingTing Chen & Xiyu Chen’s work has been discussing the relationship between jewelry and people. They believe in making is thinking. With the fast pace of life in today’s society, people often ignore the reflection on the relationship between each other, leading to people’s confusion about marriage, social loss or even loss of hope. TingTing Chen & Xiyu Chen’s work is like a stimulant that encourages people to keep thinking and no longer be confused.
Read MoreMulti-disciplinary artist Lynne Speake combines sculpture, ceramics, photography and written word to create visually arresting work. Organically driven by her materials and directly influenced by color, texture, pattern and form, Lynne creates work that always has an environmental core.
Read MoreJewelry is the carrier of sentiments, it’s also the design product resulting from externalizing concepts. Its design language has emotionally bridged the creator and the spectator, allowing the power of design to leave a vibrant and everlasting aftertaste in people. I attempt to convey the metaphorical emotions by designing with the external form.
Read MoreEvery object is a stolen tale. Somehow, it’s always about stealing and refunding; it’s always about magpies, thieves and storytellers. Every glow turns into a story, with an urgency to put together every piece, crying out for patching, mending, reuniting. Objects sing, recount of dreams, memories and places; they are all born from the discovery of the small things that reveal another reality, like the revelation on spiders’ solitude that hide in the abandoned wasps nests, or the chemical reactions of oxidation that devours and dust metal’s surface, layer after layer, things on things after things untold.
Read MoreThe minimalism of the Japanese culture inspired me to make these rings. I believe that clothing and jewels are the extensions of ourselves into the world. It’s a rebellion against comfort and ordinariness, however my aim isn’t to be ostentatious. I wanted to make characteristically strong jewels with robustious style, that can emphasize the uniqueness of their holders.
Read MoreI like to work on different levels of art, handicraft and design. I mix materials with a conceptual content, especially from the everyday life. I am a helpless collector of almost everything, trash and wasted things but also material from the nature, especially stones, shells and pieces of wood. The shape, condition and color are significant and therefore a thing must very often wait for the right moment to be explored and developed because I want to have a message or a story in my jewelry.
Read More“There cannot be any true innovation without the knowledge of what came before. Tradition and innovation, like mind and hand, need to move together”. Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School was founded in 1998 in Florence; the birthplace of the Renaissance, a city known for its legacy of artisans and many cultural associations, a pulsating source of the arts and crafts, as well as history and intellectual achievements.
Read MoreAdmitted to the jewelry design major of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology In 2015, and graduated in June 2019. Has strong interest in narrative jewelry and is fond of using jewelry art as a medium to explore the society and reveal the connection between people. Currently studying in UAL-London Collage of Fashion, MA Fashion Artefect.
Read MoreI am interested in the fact that sculpture has a no verbal language, beyond limits, beyond meanings, the emptiness in my pieces is not a thing, it is an energy.
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