Seungjoo Mun - UK/South Korea
Seungjoo Mun
Designer biography:
Seungjoo Mun is a Korean-born, UK-based jewellery artist working at the intersection of sculptural form and wearable object. After graduating with a BA from Birmingham City University's School of Jewellery, she was appointed Artist in Residence (2025–2026). Her work has been recognised as Finalist in the Progold 3D DfAM Contest 2026 and awarded the Lakeside Arts Award and Walsh Paige Award (2025). Recent exhibitions include Cluster Contemporary Jewellery and New Designers in London (2025), and she will participate in London Craft Week 2026 with Blackdot Gallery. A member of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery, her practice explores essence through deconstruction, questioning where meaning resides and challenging the relationship between visible form and invisible structure.
Collection concept
This collection explores essence through the metaphor of the spine. Just as the spine supports the body while remaining hidden beneath the skin, I've come to see completed pieces as surface, while the true essence lies in the remnants left behind during making. Fragments, scraps, and discarded forms are not waste but carriers of decisions, emotions, and thoughts. Using the spine as both symbol and method, I deconstruct its form and logic, then rebuild it through my own structural language. Working primarily in silver, I translate the spine's qualities of flexibility, rhythm, and hidden support into kinetic pieces that shift and sound when worn. The collection asks whether essence can still be recognised when visible form is stripped away, questioning the relationship between what we see and what invisibly sustains it.
