London x Tokyo Jewellery Cultural Exchange Online Catalogue

7th–9th February 2020 11 AM – 6 PM

Private View 7th February 2020 6 PM – 9 PM

Sunny Art Centre London 30 Gray’s Inn Rd London WC1X 8HR +44 (0)2086165990

Chuanyu Qi Di Xin Fuqi Zhang Haojun Zhou Hiu Tung Yip Jiaqi Zhang Kana Nakano Meiling Ma Misato Ikeda Peiming Song Puyu Liang

Qiang Li Ran Li Risa Suzuki Sean Huang Seeun Kim Shivani Tyagi Sou Inoue Tianqing Li Ting Deng Wan Li Weikun Yin

Wen Xin Ximeng Liu Yana Istomina Yilan Liu Yiqi Wu Yiwen Wang Yu Tan Yujia Gao Yunqi Zhang Zhijin Xie

Chuanyu Qi Space Oddity

Inspired by David Bowie’s song Space oddity, I try to deliver the broadness of the universe and the oddness or beauty on our planet which we do not see very often through the pieces.

By using not very common ore specimens rather than valuable gems, I used the silver structure of the work and the peculiar form of the ores to set them and explored more possibilities for stone setting.

chuanyu.qi614@gmail.com

Di Xin

The Process of Overcoming Fear This series of conceptual jewellery adopting glasswork and metalwork probes into the physical state of a drowning person through recreating the drowning process. It aims to show that drowning is not entirely about struggling in fear and helplessness, but more about getting used to fear and overcoming it.

Starting from the physical state of a drowning person, I studied people’s reactions while drowning, such as breathing, deforming, struggling, and losing focus. Specific emphasis was put on combining feelings and physical reactions of suffocation, constriction, resistance, and blurred vision. I used elements of water bubbles, which are produced during the interaction between water and human, to express my concept.

xindi_2018@163.com

Fuqi Zhang

The Sitting Man The Sitting Man is inspired by my research about the nature of time and also my private experience of time.

The effort and time spent on making are also very important for me, as they create intimacy between my work and myself.

zhangfuqizfq@126.com

Haojun Zhou As a life observer, Haojun’s works are all developed from her own experiences and thoughts. She looks into the rational relationships among things. For her, it is vital to consider the connection between the maker, the artwork and the audience. ​ Thousands of years ago, our hominid ancestors walked on both hands and feet. A modern man no longer needs his hands to walk. As time passes, our physical actions are becoming simpler. What if, in the future, we don’t even need our feet to walk anymore?

1074517118@qq.com

Hiu Tung Yip Look Gently is a series of jewellery about the specific kind of vulnerability in the process of interacting and bonding with people. Balancing between safeguarding your comfort zone and venturing into the wild, it proposes a way to deal with these insecurity and intimate discomforts.

It takes patience and courage to create a bond with another human being. Drawing inspiration from animals in nature by engaging with how they attract and repel one another, I’m looking for a tactic that invites others to come closer, while distracting them from getting too close too fast, so each of us would have time to observe, to be understood.

The colourful feathers of rollers provide the sweetest lure while the vibrant skin of poison dart frogs gives the loudest deadly warning, and the memorizing eyespot mimicry of owl butterflies allows them to pretend to be something bigger and more intimidating than their otherwise defenceless self.

Look Gently is to say, don’t look at me (too aggressively), but do look. It is about the equilibrium to be found between attraction and repulsion, between shyness and assertiveness. hiutung.w.yip@gmail.com

Jiaqi Zhang My works are a reflection of social issues, looking at a multicultural angle, they are also the finding of answers for my own thoughts.

ID cards reflect on the dehumanization as we are entering a highly digitalized world. Humans are represented by lines of codes.Your bank card tracks the activities of your whole day. As our lives are getting more and more convenient, our humanity is slowing replaced by digital data.

jiaqi.zhang06@gmail.com

Kana Nakano

CREATIVE REUSE wasted jewellery I created the jewellery using collected waste matters with forms and materiality that I consider beautiful and gorgeous as they are.

nakapokana@gmail.com

Meiling Ma

Rhyme of Tang Dynasty Makeup has always been a form of expression, it’s an art in itself. Around ten centuries ago, in Tang Dynasty China, cosmetics were an essential part of women’s adornment, women had the most creative and bold ways of applying makeup. The iconic makeup of geishas was also originally influenced by Tang’s makeup trends, we can still see our culture get preserved and celebrated in our neighbouring country.

Under western influences nowadays, makeup in China are following the trend, we seem to lose our own opinion about how to apply makeup. I want to design these facial ornaments in order to celebrate the feminine power Tang women had over makeup and how creative they were back in the days.

I hope that we can be as confident as back then and have our own Chinese beauty standard, as well as pay more attention to how we can inherit and evolve our traditional culture. I hope this series of work can evoke cultural awareness through wonder and humour.

meilingmauk@hotmail.com

Misato Ikeda The bones have a kind of sophisticated and mechanical beauty. While the brilliance of life is expressed by quartz, the brilliance that does not disappear even in the face of death is expressed by black buffalo horns.

hvalur.ryhma@gmail.com

Peiming Song

Obsessive-compulsive Disorder For this project, I used basic geometrical elements such as points, lines and planes combined with scenes in our daily life to portray a humorous depiction. Based on the thinking of restoring the ‘sense of order’ in life, it caused a potential hint of ‘breaking order’.

I used scenes that made obsessive-compulsive disorder patients feel psychologically uncomfortable to represent non-obsessive-compulsive disorders. The ‘sense of order’ scene and the element of ‘breaking order’ existed in the same space. With my jewellery ‘language’, I revealed this phenomenon of confrontation and coexistence and showed the possibilities of multidirectional development of things.

peimingssong@gmail.com

Puyu Liang This project is inspired by Puyu’s own daily exploration of the dialogue between the human body and its surroundings, and how it interacts with and is represented by the objects around it.

The project Athena and her Parthenon wants to bring a dynamic shape of the body through the structure and forms of textile and the use of jewellery on the body.

puyuliang@yahoo.com

Qiang Li The Sweet × Heart series of jewellery explores the similarities between the strong emotional feelings associated with both sweets and jewellery. They are both associated with love, joy, luxury, romance, satisfaction, and treasure. The jewellery pieces recall sweet memories and precious moments.

Qiang(Helen) Li is a jewellery and object designer and maker. She is exploring the connection between art and design, form and function. Her jewellery is a means of communication about new concepts relating to the body, and defining “ fun fine jewellery” in her own way.

qiang.li@yeah.net

Ran Li

Shiramine The melting process for me is a kind of subtle but fundamental power. It’s persuasive, feminine and soft.

When something is melting, it changes its surroundings quietly, patiently but unmistakably.

In my practice, I combined the melting aesthetics and the deer fur pattern together, which both powerfully stimulate my imagination. The idea of camouflage and the mystery of the alien body inform my works, reflecting the absurdity and surreal quality of my own narratives.

I use some western culture’s most overworked motifs such as apples to connote something emotionally beyond the everyday fact of their existence, as a poetic solution to fight against the soul-numbing nature of modern mundane life.

289248591@qq.com

Risa Suzuki

HEEL THE WORLD Each of us is different from others because of our personalities. The process of finding our new paths is full of various emotions.

y_xxxx.01@softbank.ne.jp

Sean Huang

To Walk Through Medieval Europe My creations are deeply influenced by the history and art of medieval Europe. It is expressed in my jewellery with precious metals and composites.

jcngsjoqq@gmail.com

Seeun Kim My works were inspired by the Jewellery collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum Museum. Through the V&A Museum, which connects the historical and modern cultural artefacts and artworks, we can feel the coexistence of art beyond time and space. Through my works, I explored the meaning of harmony by connecting traditions and modernity, and emphasised the vitality of regenerating through repeated patterns. The past, the present and the future are mirrors that reflect each other: they reflect us in modern society through history, and it is a tool to illuminate the future.

I hope people who wear my jewellery will be encouraged and love themselves. If any of them have had a hard time, I wish they would be comforted by wearing my jewellery and become mentally stronger. I hope my jewellery can be a lucky charm for them.

kseksekse1221@naver.com

Shivani Tyagi Greetings.

I am Shivani Tyagi, a jewellery designer and artist.

I am presenting my latest jewellery collection called PEARL o PEDIA. This is an original collection describing my journey with the pearls to date. Being a timeless jewel in themselves pearls have their own unique world.

Beauty, magnificence and brilliance lie in their own materiality and I, as a designer have tried to keep its rawness alive to re-discover its very being.

This is an effort to give the world a fresh approach of wearing pearls and enjoying them not only as a jewellery piece but also as a testimony of the nature and its elements.

Working specifically with the baroque pearls holds meaning in itself. The beauty of its natural shape, its texture and lustre, makes each pearl one of its kind in the world and gives the wearer his/her own sense of individual uniqueness and possession. This is my way of appreciating the beauty of mother nature.

styagi756@gmail.com

Sou Inoue

Not just Round The heart is secretly hidden inside of the circle.

inouesou1989@gmail.com

Tianqing Li This series of work explores the wearability and entertainment of contemporary jewellery. Chess is a traditional game of entertainment and culture, this chess has been redesigned to be wearable and portable. I hope to investigate more functions of contemporary jewellery through my works.

743879081@qq.com

Ting Deng

The Ultimate Reality Once a modern dancer, I make this work to feel the emotions and discover the subconscious.

Read the works along with the rhythm of the dances or songs, and breath following the changes of the wire shapes. Then close your eyes and dance, listen to each note of metal clanking. In this early work, I took the present as an innuendo of the past, and the deconstruction and reconstruction of human history were my methodology to identify myself. As far as I notice the past becomes more unpredictable than the future, collective memory and monument begin to take part in my practice, and all inquiries point to one of the humanity’s grandest propositions: time and existence.

All my inspiration comes from the romantic nostalgia of the past. ‘The word “nostalgia” comes from two Greek roots: νόστος, nóstos (“return home”) and ἄλγος, álgos (“longing”), I would define it as a longing for a home that has never existed.’ Written by Svetlana Boym in The Future of Nostalgia.

In this unreachable ruins, darkness, emptiness, lofty, disillusionment, shadow, loneliness, destruction, debris, strangeness, echo, fable, wandering, and death are eternally growing with endless time and space. lorina.deng@icloud.com

Wan Li

A Bottle With A Chain As a jeweller-maker-designer, I explore the connection between objects and jewellery pieces. A bottle with a chain is something different from my usual work since I started making jewellery. It is a sculpture and ring which could be connected to our body.

As a jewellery maker, I hope it would not lose its functionality when people wear it. The heavy glass in the exact infusion bag shape gives a medical sense, it is here to be seen as a burden for us when we have it on our body.

echoli19960311@gmail.com

Weikun Yin

Information Explosion We live in an age where we cannot be separated from our mobile phones, computers, and the Internet.

Gradually, I began to realise there is no way to avoid vulgar advertising. News with fleshly headlines and empty content also killed a lot of time. When you take the subway, take the elevator or even go for a walk, hundreds of small advertisements are forced into your sensory world.

So I started to think, what exactly is this information explosion born through the Internet? Is it a geometric multiplication of rumours? Is it a new form of interconnected virtual life? Or we simply can’t remember the junk information we don’t need? So this series I use light and shadow as a metaphor to think about what is the nature of information explosion.

904059114@qq.com

Wen Xin Can Not

‘You know that there are many things you cannot control, which makes you suffer.’ If we compare the human psychological world to a container, every problem in the world of the container and in the world inside its boundary has a solution and they can all be controlled. In the world outside the boundary, the problems are not necessarily controllable.

Whether it is personal development, family, marriage, politics, economics or culture, there is always a part within your control, and some are out of your control.

If there is a hole in the container, people will suffer because they cannot identify, build up, and clarify the boundaries, devoting their emotions on things beyond their control.

I noticed that the cans that were squashed by people at the party and were thrown on the road. They are records and evidence of people’s behaviour which are things out of our psychological boundary.

wenwenxin09@gmail.com

Ximeng Liu This series of works explores the sense of distance between people.

As far as I can remember, my parents did not treat their children as friends. When my parents talk to me as elders, I often feel that there is an invisible wall between us. The wall is sometimes like a thorn, reminding me that I’m not as close to my parents as I thought. We might have a desire for intimate communication and interaction, but traditional eastern family values do not allow us to express our feelings as directly as the western families. This distance can be sharp, like when I argue with my parents, or soft, like when I send them a greeting from a distant foreign country.

The distance brought by different degrees of intimacy between people will also be different. It’s like if the hedgehogs gathered together for warmth and needed to adjust the distance between them at all times. When I want to be close to someone, does that person want to be close to me? When a person experiences heartache and estrangement, can others also understand?

1249978328@qq.com

Yana Istomina WARNING PRESENTED JEWELLERY CONTAINS ELEMENTS THAT SOME MIGHT FIND UPSETTING. IF SO, PLEASE IGNORE THIS WORK. Presented jewellery pieces form part of the ‘random’ collection presented by London based fashion brand HYBRID 2.6, inspired by personal little fetishes and obsessions with a diverse cultural mix.

Set of ‘Cocaine’ Cards

It’s a playful transformation and combination of the British HSBC bank aesthetics, student oyster travel card and British slang.

BTW, if you decide to get one, it’s completely up to you how are you going to use it. But mate, if you use it for dodgy purposes that’s fully your responsibility.

And remember, cocaine is a highly addictive and illegal recreational drug.

yanaistominalondon@gmail.com

Yilan Liu Ataraxia

Yilan Liu’s collection aims to discuss the potential of emotional experience between wearers and jewellery pieces. With accelerating urbanisation, the rise of selfdetermined and independent women is stimulating the growing demand for emotional experience derived from contemporary jewellery.

In the Ataraxia collection,Yilan engages in the relationship between wearers and their jewellery pieces through the lens of historical European architecture.

Inspired by Gothic architectural interiors, the collection encapsulates the sublime internal atmosphere, exploring and skilfully exploiting Gothic structural details to stimulate the particular feelings familiar to this genre. Liu has used synthetic gemstones, regarded as a lower eco-imprint material, cutting them into unusually flat surfaces to allow their colours to cast intensely toned lights onto the skin.

Contemplative self-exploration and meditation are encouraged by the collection, the jewellery acts as a medium to provoke unique individual experience through playful interaction between the design and wearer. yilanjewelry@163.com

Yiqi Wu

Heart Dream Dreams always give me heart failure. For a person who dreams every day, I always wake up depressingly.

When it comes to dream, everyone has ‘another me’ in his or her heart where both beauty and darkness are acceptable, these unconscious desires are not just resting quietly in the human mind.

I have dreamed the same dream many times. In my dream, I was a member of the Earth escort. When patrolling at the beach, I was attacked by a gigantic octopus. The octopus wrapped around my body, but it seemed to mean no harm and tried to talk to me. Its magical attraction to me is unforgettable.

These dreams which make me almost get heart failure are like the octopus’s tentacles crawling out of my heart, but they are not horrible or foul. On the opposite, the octopus attempts to lure me in my dreams is psychedelic, and it tries to lead me into a new world.

wuyiqi2017@163.com

Yiwen Wang <there, there>

Is it a sound?

Then, again, is it music?

Is music – the word, I mean – is that a sound?

If it is, is music music?

Is the word ‘music’ music?

Does it communicate anything?

A piece of sorrow/ A piece of surprise/ A piece of foreordain/ Be timid/ Be excited Experience the jewellery Do not escape

even-wyw@qq.com

Yu Tan Long even after Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gone Long after youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gone The memory of you tortures me I heard your voice in my heart Light and affectionate Made me feel alive The past is engraved on my soul quietly Like the rose thorns wrapped around my body without making me bleed I am wandering at the edge of memory Woven by my desires My rose had died But my thorns are forever.

yutan.jewellery@gmail.com

Yujia Gao As a jeweller-maker-designer I explore the relationship between objects and space, trying to find the missing part of the object.

Still Life comes from my childhood memory. I remember the time when I first started to learn how to draw, I was so confident and comfortable, believing that I drew what I saw. Starting with geometry shapes. After training I was taught to be accurate then I lost the joy of drawing and saw my drawing differently.

Perspective is the sight of our extension of the scale of space and distance. It is the rule of how we see the world and a stereotype for us to know, yet sometimes it can be deceptive. I rebuild a still life from the drawing I did from my childhood time. In these drawings, the perspective and proportion are not always right. In my work the geometric forms can only be seen in one perspective and there are some faults, inaccuracy, distortion.

yujia_gao1994@163.com

Yunqi Zhang Cactus Heart

As I grow older, my hearts grow stronger, like prickly cactus, protecting the softest part.

yunqizhang0606@163.com

Zhijin Xie The series of jewellery (brooch) aims to indicate the influence of time towards the human body. With the lapse of time, our organs change constantly, and some of them tend to be abnormal.

Given such consideration, I tried to demonstrate the aged organs of people through an exaggerated form of deformation. The whole series was made from ceramics and metallic materials, in which the diseased parts were composed of different glazes, pastes of different textures, and the faded metallic materials, indicating the devourment of time to the health of people.

zhijinxie37@gmail.com