Luo Tingyan - UK
Luo Tingyan
Designer biography:
Tingyan Luo is a London-based jewellery designer and MA graduate from Central Saint Martins. Working with recycled glass and silver, Tingyan merges traditional filigree and digital techniques to reframe symbolic forms from Chinese jade culture—such as belts and burial suits—through gestures of fracture, echo, and weave. Rather than reproducing inherited shapes, her work reinterprets cultural memory with sustainable materials and conceptual rigor. Threading material regeneration with cultural re-signification, her practice proposes new dialogues on ecology, identity, and craftsmanship within a global context.
Collection concept:
Re-Jade is an experimental jewellery collection that reimagines the symbolic architecture of Chinese jade culture through the lens of sustainability and cultural revision. Using recycled glass and silver, the collection reconstructs traditional ceremonial forms—not to replicate, but to rethink their value through gestures of fragility, layering, and transformation. Rather than treating glass as a substitute, it becomes an intentional medium—capable of holding memory, ritual, and resistance. Each piece arises from a non-linear, intuitive process of material listening and embodied response, where trace, fracture, and touch become acts of cultural transcription. Re-Jade challenges conventional hierarchies of material and meaning, proposing a future where craft, heritage, and ecology converge in renewed harmony.
