Holding a Master’s degree in architecture, Angela Ciobanu is a jewellery designer and architect with a cross-disciplinary approach, encompassing novel design aesthetics, material research, craftsmanship and technology. With a particular interest in biomaterials and challenging the idea that a piece of jewellery should be just an adornment for the body, the objects that she creates push the traditional confines and
Read MoreQi Han is a jewellery designer, artist and sculptor currently based in China. She graduated from the Affiliated High School to the China Academy of Art, and then obtained a Bachelor's degree at the China Academy of Art, majoring in Sculpture. After that, she decided to enter the Royal College of Art (Jewelry and Metal programme) for further study.
Read MoreYolanda Zheng is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Amoy, China. As a Buddhist, she is searching for inner peace in this time which changes rapidly, also, she hopes to embrace the chaos, the energy, the feeling of being alive, and to share her positive attitude with people by express the light in her heart in her works.
Read MoreBorn in 2000, Xinyi was predominantly influenced by the generation Z. The society and art after 2000, with globalization, internationalization, urbanization, marketization, "depoliticise", go to the elite, diversification, entertainment, complanation, no centralized characteristics, artistic features gradually from the historical trace of the linear by emphasis on realistic society and traditional culture in the 90 s, the cultural differences between
Read MoreMy name is Andreia Gabriela Popescu. I was born in Bucharest, Romania, on 04.08.1973. I have been a designer and manufacturer of contemporary jewelry since 2010. I am also teacher of contemporary jewelry. I always liked to create! At first my interest in jewelry came as an addition to my palette of concerns, being constantly drawn to art and creation, but has evolved into a
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 have always been curious about insects. After reading THE INSECTS AN OUTLINE OF ENTOMOLOGY, the Smerinthus planus Walker, which is in Lepidoptera, aroused my strong interest. This kind of insect is particular as when it rests, the brown fore wings would cover the back wings, while when it is disturbed, the blue and black spots on the back wings would appear, which resemble a giant frightening eye.
Read MoreIn the search for a work cohesive to my private world, my interests, my vision of the human, the subjective and my choice of a life away from stereotypes, I drift to the language of conceptual-experimental jewelry and approach it as a device of Art, taking it to a conceptual displacement that detaches it from the traditional codes so that my pieces are not limited to only one materiality, everything can be used to build.
Read MoreI live and work in Punta Arenas, Chile. I trained in Technical Drawing and Interior Design and Equipment, and I have studied Interior Design and Visual Arts. I learned goldsmithing in my hometown and I have furthered my studies in jewellery and object creation workshops in Santiago de Chile. I have taken workshops with international artists. I have adopted the construction of wefts as my
Read MoreI am an artist and a designer. I discovered the world of contemporary jewelry in 2001, in Cordoba, Argentina where I was born. I left Argentina in 2005 for Barcelona where I worked for 5 years at Laura B; later, I learned the forging techniques at the jewellery school “El Taller de Joyería”. In 2012, I moved to Lyon, where I won the “Talents de mode” contest which allowed me to create my
Read MoreUtopic has made a home for itself in Bucharest, although its limits extend beyond those of geography. It is a place where people’s memories, ideas, hopes and desires can be expressed through the fiery vocabulary of silver, gold and copper.
Read MoreElectrochemistry has its appeal but the feeling expressed Leo Bloom, "There is a lot more to me than there is to me," was overwhelming. Now I give free rein to the dance of the brush on the thin wood. The spatial form grows out of folding, twisting and creasing. Lines, deliberately guided electrically conductive paths, are electroplated with copper that captures the tangible and conceptual beauty of this process.
Read MorePenelope, Penny, is a mature student at Glyndwr University, North Wales, currently studying for her Masters degree. In her younger years she completed an art foundation course, and an Audio Visual Btec National Diploma but a lack of confidence along with life’s experiences she did not further her studies until she was 50 years old, obtaining her Bachelor of Arts Degree at 53. Inspired by this achievement she is currently studying for her Masters Degree.
Read MoreShe is a young goldsmith and jewelry designer, born in the hot July of 1979. With clear ideas about her future, she entered the world of goldsmith art right from her first studies, choosing to attend the Institute of Public Art, "metallurgy and jewelry" area. In 2004, she opens her showroom-laboratory in Pescara, multiple participations in exhibitions and collective art of contemporary jewelry
Read MoreYuxi Ji is a jewelry designer from Suzhou, China, she focuses on the innovation and inheritance of Suzhou embroidery. She intends to use traditional culture to show the young attitude of the moment and establish a new Chinese aesthetics. She explores how embroidery will break through its current limitations and show the magnificence of craftsmanship more boldly.
Read MoreQiang Li was born in China and studied Industrial Design (BA) and (MA) and followed this with an MA (Jewellery and Metal) at the Royal College of Art. She currently lives in London working to establish her jewellery brand alongside a position as a part-time Research Fellow at Monash University-Suzhou, China.
Read MoreAudrey Aronson is a jewelry artist from the United States. She graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a BFA in 3D Studio Art and Art History and received her MFA in metalsmithing from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Her work has been recently shown at #Social2021 at the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art in South Korea and at the Best of 2022, Ohio Designer Craftsman traveling exhibition at the Ohio Craft Museum in Columbus, Ohio.
Read MoreLes Brucelles asbl is a non-profit association, created in 2021 to organise the first Brussels Jewellery Week, which took place in spring 2022. With a major exhibition at MAD, “In Fieri”, as well as “Be.Next” for Belgian contemporary schools and a Tour in Brussels galleries and workshop, it was the first important event ever dedicated to contemporary jewellery in Belgium.
Read MoreBorn in 1966 in Milan, Roberta Consalvo Sances is an Italian jewelry maker, based in Florence (Italy). She graduated in Oriental Languages in 1991. After a career in the HR field, Roberta’s path changed dramatically when she discovered her passion for contemporary jewellery in 2015. She got a BFA in 2017 and an MFA in Contemporary Jewellery and Body Ornament from Alchimia Jewellery School in Florence, Italy in 2019.
Read MoreMy pseudonym is Lucienne. Concerning my education I could say that it is divided in two parts: real sciences and art. I started my career at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Romania. I have participated to different jewelry workshops from Bucharest ( Assamblage JS ) Florence Alchimia Contemporary JS), Barcelona Porcelain Jewelry " 137degrees Artistic Studio".
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