Alise Kennedy’s career in theatre costume at Shakespeare’s Globe and the Royal Ballet has given her a diverse language of construction techniques and a sense of drama, spotlighting the material and visual potential of textiles in her jewellery. Alise graduated with an MA in Design (Jewellery) from Central St. Martins in 2020. She has an affinity with textiles and an experimental
Read MoreImogen Cheng’s Let the Past Stay in Our Future uses contemporary narrative jewellery as a carrier and medium to explore the relationship between objects and human beings. The work asks us to reflect on our connection to the personal objects we embed with memories and stories.
Read MoreLi Jingzhuo is a very young artist (student level). She has an academic background in industrial design and jewellery design. She also manages the affairs of Non-Existent Products Ltd (see the company's homepage at www.lijingzhuo.com). She is a professional designer of impractical products and a high-end daydreamer. Her unrealistic products have deep meanings underneath.
Read MoreCho Ying NG is a young contemporary jewellery artist from China. For her, jewellery is a language of expression, which she uses to explore her observations of the world. She specialises in creating art with different materials to generate ideas and feelings, building her work into new narrative imagery and continuing to pursue the relationship between man and nature.
Read MoreCheuk Man Au is a young contemporary jewellery artist and designer. Her work is concerned with human emotions or behavior. She aims to capture the subtle emotions of life through an exploration of the relationship between human nature and the outside world, and try to visualize the emotion through the context of contemporary jewellery.
Read MoreYuka Jourdain is Japanese jeweller based in the U.K. who appreciates and supports the diversity of nature and human culture. Her pieces arrive through an enjoyment of both traditional jewellery techniques and the exploration of new materials. Yuka believes that material handling and being observant of forms that emerge through experimental making are important as she strives to
Read MoreClaudia Lepik is a jewellery artist who is intrigued by how to push boundaries in jewellery with scale and material. Specific interest is face and nose jewellery and including more theatrical fashion inspiration in her works gives her the opportunity to investigate the whole body of a wearer and work with chosen materials being in dialogue with her body. Taking time for each piece is her way of communicating with
Read MoreIn daily life, soap is a common commodity. Whenever I use it, I want to keep the delicate carving on its surface, and deliberately change the way I use it. Since then, I began to pay attention to the special material of soap. Soap interacts with people frequently and continuously in daily life until it has completely run out. During this period, soap will be changed randomly according to people's unconscious use habits.
Read MoreWanrong Xie’s BA graduated from Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University and is currently studying an MFA degree in jewellery and metalwork at Sheffield Hallam University. She has about 6 years of jewellery learning and design experience. Xie uses jewellery and metalwork as a medium to bring people closer to social life and to explore various issues in contemporary society
Read MoreMy background is in textile design and for thirteen years after graduating I worked creating tactile fabrics for high end interior and fashion fabric clients. My practice now takes these skills but explores the more intimate scale and application of wearable objects, using my textiles background and skills but merging with silversmithing.
Read MoreDebby Wang’s BA major is installation art. She has a MA degree in Jewellery & Metalwork from Sheffield Hallam University and has been engaged in jewellery related work for more than three years. Miss Wang has a jewellery technology and advertising design license. Recently, setting up a personal jewellery brand and expressing herself with contemporary jewellery.
Read MoreA jewellery designer and maker from America, who has recently finished her MA at the School of Jewellery in Birmingham, UK. She enjoys various themes like East Asian culture, texture, and abstract art, but frequently explores the themes surrounding light and dark, creating unique pieces using various precious and non-precious materials. She has always been attracted
Read MorePhoebe Dao is a Vietnamese art jewellery designer. She studied MA in Jewellery in Birmingham, UK. She is passionate about the consequences of plastic pollution. Her work uses a mixture of recycled and bioplastic to make bold, powerful pieces that aim to shock viewers with images of fossilised remains caused by human consumer indulgence. She believes
Read MoreMatilde Mozzanega is a contemporary Jewellery maker and designer based in London. Graduated from Central Saint Martins with a First Class Honours Degree in BA Jewellery Design (2018), she now produces her own pieces and works as a tutor at the British Academy of Jewellery. Her work sits within the context of Contemporary Jewellery & Sustainability.
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