Yujun Jiang (Australia)
YUJUN JIANG
Designer biography:
She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and Master of Fine Arts at RMIT University. Exhibitions include 2024 Designing in jewellery JCC center, 2023 RMIT MFA graduate exhibition, 2023 SNAG Metalsmith: Juried Student Exhibition, 2022 Rendering: Jewellery and Objects Melbourne and 2022 Through Time and Space Exhibition. Born in 1996, in Chongqing, China and now resides in Melbourne. She is fascinated by combining enamel with various materials to explore themes of nostalgia and maternal energy. Her work received the 2019 Excellent Award of International Cultural Innovation and the Zhou Liufu Jewelry Design, 2018 Excellent Graduation Work of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. She also completed an Art Residency in MODA Art Space and exhibited at Mei Bo Art Museum Shanghai, China in 2020.
Collection concept:
Yujun Jiang makes contemporary jewellery that engages the intimacy and healing that comes from maternal energies through narrative expression. Objects in the artist’s life that hold childhood memories are recreated by hand using discarded horsehair, enamel metalwork, and various materials. Tracing tactile memories such as touching her mother’s hair during childhood, Yujun’s jewellery symbolically transforms and combines trauma and fond memories, communicating the process of self-healing and growth as a woman.
Yujun Jiang, necklace, my pillow, 2022, enamel, horsehair, copper, cotton, silicone, 28x25cm
Yujun Jiang, brooch, The Tactility of Nostaligia II I, 2023, enamel, horsehair, copper, wool, silicone, 12x9cm
Yujun Jiang, brooch, autum of life, 2022, enamel, horsehair, copper, 15x6cm
Yujun Jiang, necklace, my pillow, 2022, enamel, horsehair, copper, cotton, silicone, 28x25cm