Shane Shi - UK/China
Shane Shi
Designer biography:
Shane is a London-based contemporary jewellery artist pursuing an MA in Jewellery & Metal at the Royal College of Art (RCA). Also trained as a jewellery appraiser, evaluator, and jade carving artist, his practice focuses on Eastern cultural contexts and the poetics of identity. His work has been exhibited internationally—including Beijing, Los Angeles, and London—and featured in publications such as Youth Vision, China Daily, Sina News, and The Art Insider. In 2025, Shane participated as both a collaborating artist and curator in No Longer, Not Yet, a two-site exhibition held at the Barbican Centre Conservatory and the ICA, London. Most recently, he was invited to showcase new work at the FORGE Third Anniversary Exhibition, further expanding his presence within London’s independent jewellery and craft community. Informed by ethnographic research into ritual, bodily experience, and emotional expression, Shane’s work positions itself between high jewellery and experimental materials. His pieces are avant-garde yet grounded in tradition—poetic, narrative-driven objects that explore perception, tactility, and symbolism to articulate a spiritually resonant approach to contemporary jewellery.
Collection concept - The exploration of Surrealism, Abstraction, and love narratives.
1. Why would a flower grow an umbilical cord?
Is it nourishment, or is it a tether? When our thoughts drift back to a certain moment, do we hear the same faint voice echo within us? Flower? For our Memories&Fantacy which cannot be spoken.
2. The baby is a falcon, it grows, it gnaws, it lies in the cradle, swaying in silence. Withered branches encircle it, tear drops fall. A hotbed not only nurtures birth, but also breeds desire, and the further descent into danger and loss of control. When everything is finally over, it falls into a heavy sleep. And you-will you dream of this scene too?
3. If a perfect heart were split in half, would the feelings within vanish as the symbol disappears? Perhaps they could take another form—becoming the environment, and becoming the occasion, rising into three dimensions, transforming into a perfect universe. Looking around, the blurred figures, the doll-like beauties— which one is me? Within this constructed perfect universe, we become idealistic.
4. Held by countless hands, I revel in it. Though shaken an infinite number of times, I remain here. Is it taking fragments away from me, or is it drawing me in with its own treasures, asking me to stay? The wind passes through, and it sways like a wind chime.
5. The iconic six-prong Tiffany engagement ring, its center stone ever so slightly off-center— like a promise once spoken, now blurred with the passing of time. Everything feels unfamiliar, especially when she paints her lips a vivid red and repeats those words back to me.
