Zhuwei Lu (USA)
ZHUWEI LU
Biography:
Zhuwei Lu was born in a suburb of Shanghai, China. After graduating from high school, she went to college in Wuhan to learn the traditional Chinese art of lacquer. After college, she chose to pursue her dream of becoming a jewelry designer and she came to the United States to study jewelry design at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
The new world gave her a broader mind and she learned more techniques such as electroforming, a technique she was attracted to because it transforms the intangible into the tangible and grows a very interesting texture, and she gradually came up with her own philosophy of jewelry design through trial and error.
Collection Concept:
The works of Zhuwei Lu focus on the possibilities between metals, she enjoys experimenting with different techniques to explore metals, such as electroforming, casting, or soldering, and she is happy to work with even the most basic metals such as copper, brass, and bronze.
Zhuwei Lu's research on metals will not stop. She will do more different research and experiments and will explore more in terms of forms. By studying the properties of different metals and combining them with other non-traditional materials, she will explore the techniques of processing and transformation in order to expect to make breakthroughs not only in materials and techniques, but also to broaden people's perception of contemporary jewelry design through creation.
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