Meet The Artists
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Haotian Dong & Dexin (Leah) Chen
Based in New York
Haotian Dong is an award winning multidisciplinary designer based in NYC. His expertise lies in crafting visual systems and applications that cover various areas, including Brand Identities, Editorial Content, Metalsmith, Typography, Art Direction, and Motion Graphics. Whether in the digital realm or physical media, his design philosophy centers around extensive research, experimentation, and the development of captivating stories that emphasize consistency, structure, and innovative objectives and functionalities.
Dexin (Leah) Chen is a graphic designer based in Brooklyn. She has received multiple awards, including TDC Young Ones, ADC Young Ones Shortlisted, D&AD New Blood, Design Education Awards (Bronze), etc. She specializes in creating visual systems and applications encompassing Book Production, Editorial Content, Brand Identities, Typography, Art Direction, and Web Design. Her design approach in both digital and physical media is based on thorough research, experimentation, and creating compelling narratives that focus on coherence, format, and challenging purposes and functions.
Haotian and Leah both have a great passion for font design, but each person's focus is different. Haotian excels in creating imaginative and decorative fonts, as well as dynamic visual designs. On the other hand, Leah excels in traditional and legible font design, as well as book layout and typesetting. The two artists complement each other's strengths, combining their areas of expertise to create an experimental font design that is both artistic and readable.
Gene Chen
Based in London
To summarise my practice in one sentence, "Archiving the flow of time and space" would be the most appropriate.
I graduated from the Royal College of Art's Visual Communication program in 2017, since
when I have been always trying to preserve reality by capturing moments in time, forging a profound connection between the present and the past. While initially honing my technical skills, my focus gradually expanded to explore the intricate web of human connections and individual identity at a micro level. As I delved deeper, my gaze
shifted toward the urban environment, society, and culture, recognising how these elements shape our values, behaviours, and ways of life. I began documenting cities and streets, and soon realised that true inspiration lay in the raw power of these preserved instants.
What is the definition of the “present”? Is it an instantaneous moment, a point in time, or a
multidimensional expanse? For me, capturing the present surpasses the act of freezing a solitary moment through the lens of a camera. It entails documenting the essence of a specific period within a defined space. It is within these glimpses of time and place that profound narratives unfold.
I aim to challenge established notions of time and space, inviting viewers to explore a new dimension of engagement and perception.
Jill Lin
Based in London
Jill Lin, a Taiwanese artist, engages in a multidisciplinary approach with textiles, knitwear, performance, and interactive digital art. Currently, she has specifically explored the integration of audio-reactive visualization technologies and real-time biofeedback devices. By transforming the body into interactive canvases that respond to individuals' internal rhythms, she provides an immersive experience where individuals can delve into their physicality and emotional landscapes. The practices allowed her to develop the potential of physiological data as a new language in this generation. She aimed to create a universal means of communication and understanding that surpasses cultural, linguistic, and societal barriers, and provides a more inclusive and universally applicable means of identification.
Mudai
Based in London
Mudai, an artist from mainland China, is currently studying at Kingston University School of Art. Graduated in Architecture from the University of Liverpool in 2021. She endows each artwork with her interdisciplinary study experience, and firmly believes that natural materials can express the emotions of art workers. She creates ceramic works and traditional rock paintings, pursuing a simple and pure style, with a consistent love for nature.
Yiling Wu
Based in London
Yiling Wu is a contemporary embroidery artist from Taiwan, currently based in London. She graduated from London College of Fashion, specializing in fashion textiles, and her adventurous spirit fuels her creative journey. Yiling's area of expertise lies in digital embroidery, and her work has been showcased at esteemed events such as Premiere Vision 2021 and Taiwan Expo 2022, where she participated as a textile designer. Her artistic exploration revolves around the intricate interplay between fashion and contemporary embroidery, highlighting the intriguing contrast between tradition and modernity.
Yi Jiun Hung
Based in London
Yi Jiun Hung is a spatial designer and object maker artist based in London. Graduated from Royal College of Art interior design master degree in 2017. Back to Taiwan for years to work in the field of interior design, involving display, exhibition, interiors and furniture.
Passion for interiors, furniture and objects to experiment the possibility of materials, structures and forms to establish an identity based on human behaviour and culture. Pursuit on organic forms from anthropomorphising objects to create scenarios in testing experimental materials.
Linye Pan
Based in Birmingham
Linye Pan, a talented and passionate jewellery artist, graduated from Birmingham City University in 2023. Her works radiate craftsmanship and a distinctive artistic perspective.
Driven by a deep-rooted love for the craft, Linye has honed her skills in goldsmithing, crafting exquisite jewellery that narrates intriguing stories she observes in everyday life. Drawing inspiration from daily life and her experiences, Linye conveys her insights to the audience through her designs.
Each piece reflects her profound connection to aesthetics and unwavering dedication to precision and detail.
Xuanbo Cao
Based in London
Graduated from Kingston University with a postgraduate degree in illustration.
Her inspirations mostly come from plants, life, and her own emotions to everything. She is developing in the direction of painting art, hoping to show her style and tiny emotions that are invisible to people.
Yi Ling Lai
Based in London
Yi Ling Lai (b.1997) lives and works in London. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Calligraphy Art and Chinese Painting from the National Taiwan University of Art in 2019, followed by a Postgraduate Degree in MFA Fine Art from Kingston University in 2021.
Since winning the National Art Exhibition award in 2018 in Taiwan, Ling has participated in a number of group exhibitions, including the ‘2018 National Art Exhibition’ held at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2018), ‘Heterogeneity,’ held at Yat-sen Gallery (2019), ‘London Grads Now 21.’ held at Saatchi Gallery (2021), ‘10 ARTISTES' held at Croq’la Vie Gallery (2021), and ‘Circles in Circle' held at Open Ealing Gallery (2022). Ling has also been shortlisted for London's New Contemporaries in 2020. In 2021, she won an artist residency scholarship from Blue Shop Gallery and was selected as a rising star on Saatchi Art's platform in 2022, being the sole Taiwanese artist among 36 global talents.
Moru Wu
Based in Taipei
Studying at the Graduate Institute of Applied Arts at the National Tainan University of Arts, majoring in metalsmithing. Graduated from the Department of Art and Design of National Tsing-Hua University in 2015.
Between the exploration and experiment of the metal texture, He was fascinated by the physical state and chemical reaction of metal. Like human skin, which will cause ageing and wrinkles, it is a kind of material that can breathe. He also likes to continually experiment and break through the boundaries of metal processing through such characteristics.
Panayiotis Panayi
Based in Cyprus
Panayiotis presents new and recent works crafted out of silver, gold & titanium which continue his ongoing emotive power to design contemporary jewellery. As a critical, self-reflexive practice, contemporary jewellery tends to shed the notion of preciousness and to constantly question the body as both subject and limit. Through his sculptural, expansionist language, Panayiotis pursues a relational aesthetic and pushes back a little further the limits that he has already explored
UU
Based in Hangzhou
After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2017, UU started her brand UUUINVERSE in Hangzhou to explore the relationship between beauty, material and value.
The Hangzhou based artist always sees the beauties in nature and contemporary life and expresses and shares them through her works as a life-long project.
Kana Umeda
Based in Tokyo
After finishing university, she started to learn glassblowing, glass casting, and then lampworking, the technique used to make her jewellery pieces. Without having a proper jewellery-making education, she taught herself to be a jewellery artist and launched her own label _cthruit in 2008 in Tokyo.
In 2017, she moved her studio in Brussels to work in a completely different environment to expand her horizon in Europe. She participated in several international fairs and exhibitions, such as Sieraad Art Fair in Amsterdam and Autor in Bucharest.
Azure Zhang
Based in Shanghai
Azure Q Zhang is established in 2020 after three years of preparation. It launched three collections, Chain Obsession, Net Obsession and Geometry Obsession in this season. As indicated by the name, all the elements are what the artist has been obsessed with for a very long time. It involves classic design elements and structure in jewellery, as well as subjects reflecting more personal characteristics. A variety of wearing possibilities is addressed here, and the wearer’s imagination is largely challenged while imagining wearing one or more pieces together. What U see is no longer what U get, and what U get is not what U imagine. Everything is to play out.
Yiqing Cai
Based in Germany
Yiqing Cai is an independent art jewellery designer who founded her product brand in 2014 in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Yiqing is a product designer from Shanghai, China and has lived in Germany for many years. In the early years, abstract natural elements and human relations were the main creative themes. In recent years her main creative direction is "contradictory symbiosis". Her pursuit of work is to give the audience a vivid and visually interesting, intuitive feeling. Still, the connotation reflects the current social lifestyle and a discussion of interaction with the audience.
Hansel Tai
Based in Estonia
Hansel Tai is an artist and designer working and residing in Estonia. Hansel’s work focuses on queer culture in the Post-internet Epoch, in which the natural is shadowed by the body cult, deformation, subcultural signs and high gloss metal, and digital voodoo is materialised into fetish objects. He is unsatisfied with the contemporary notion of time as a fluid rushing from the past towards the future, carrying us along a linear path. To Hansel, the future is now: time swells towards us from the future and the past, forming a hyperstitional reality. The apocalypse is here, but so is utopia. His pierced jade and glitched-out chrome adornments encourage our mutation into cyborgs, bringing with them confusion, domination, information, euphoria, dystopia and nightmare all at once. They are multi-level skeuomorphs: real objects imitating digital ‘objects’ imitating real objects. They are something to grab onto as we are whipped about an ever-changing digital landscape, in which even us Gen Z Internet natives are lost. Reach out and touch them, feel them pierce your pixelated flesh.
Tanel Veenre
Based in Estonia
Tanel Veenre© is the whimsical and dreamy Estonian designer jewellery brand established in 2014. Since Tanel Veenre’s inception, the curiously enchanting line of art and fashion jewellery has become one of the strongest and most visible design brands in Estonia. The slogan “Kingdom of Dreams” captures its pure essence – Tanel Veenre is the allure to believe in fairies and miracles, winged seahorses and cosmic dust-covered berries, like long forgotten memories from the gardens of paradise. A thoughtful touch of colour, emotional insight and high-quality craftsmanship are all essential elements of the Tanel Veenre jewellery ethos. Tanel Veenre’s mysterious, enchanting art jewellery is internationally acclaimed. From Berlin to Bangkok, exhibitions of his work have been held across the globe and pieces are sold in galleries in Sweden, the USA, New Zealand, Belgium, Netherlands and Canada. He is often invited to teach in art colleges throughout the world and Veenre’s jewellery has enhanced the windows of the world-famous Selfridges department store in London. The successor line to his art jewellery is the more affordable designer jewellery series Tanel Veenre© which maintains the charming whimsy this brand is renowned for but with a twist of modernist flare. All products are ethically designed and produced in Estonia.
Jo Garner
Based in London
Jo Garner is a London-based maker and artist. With a background in jewellery design, studying at Duncan of Jordanstone in Dundee 2003-2007 and the Royal College of Art 2015-2017.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and purchased for the permanent collection of the Kolumba Museum of Contemporary Art in Cologne. Her career continues to develop through an interest in people and an ability to communicate and collaborate on many levels. As an Artist in Residence at The School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University she is curating an exhibition to be held during London Craft Week 2021 which will focus on craft as an agency. Currently, she is concerned with the many strands involved in being a maker and the route to becoming an artist.
Jo is heavily influenced by feelings of belonging and identity in relation to place. In a world of increasing division, she hopes to explore how objects and jewellery solidify our sense of self.
Juxtaposing traditional fine jewellery skills with materials and political context which are inherently messy creates a body of work that allows her to challenge and critique themes that are influenced by current affairs.
Miki Asai
Based in Tokyo
Miki Asai’s jewellery is inspired by intangible and those fleeting and changeable phenomena, and how this portrays the nature of everything in the world. Her aesthetics and concept are strongly based on her Japanese aesthetic which finds beauty in impermanence, imperfection, transience and ephemerality.
She creates jewellery that captures and preserves momentary beauty to own the fragments of a fleeting world, life and everything.
Joanne Guiraud
Based in London
Joanne Guiraud is a jewellery designer based in East London. Her first semi-fine jewellery collection features bespoke and ready-to-wear pieces handcrafted in high-quality Sterling Silver and 18ct Yellow Gold Vermeil.
Joanne explores the body looking for the right balance between power and fragility. Interested in the notion of pleasure and pain, she celebrates the erogenous world and questions perception with pieces existing between the seen and the unseen, the private and the public, the real and the imagined. She brings attention to the sensation of jewellery on the skin, believing touch has the power to change the way we feel inside-out.
Her first collection invites you to play, mixing femininity and masculinity, underground and glamourous. Her designs are transformable, a ring becomes an earring, a necklace becomes a harness or a body piece. Each one is timeless and unique, accentuating the customer’s body and identity.
Kelly Fung
Based in London
Kelly Fung is an interdisciplinary maker. Exploring sculpture, object design and jewellery. Kelly works with materials, objects, images and installation to reconstruct fragmented memory. She completed an MA at the Royal College of Art in Jewellery & Metal in 2018, and in 2015 she received a BFA from The School of Art Institute of Chicago, with a speciality in sculpture. Kelly’s work aims to create an ongoing space, she calls it home: an extension of self and imagination, which allows audiences to speak to and from their collective memory. In 2019, she started a design and making studio nowhere, where creates modernist wearable pieces and home objects with a focus on sculptural and timeless forms, and recycled and responsibly-sourced materials, by hand, from scratch.
Roger Maaraoui
Based in Lebanon
Making jewellery is a way for me to express my perception of the world we live in, each project embodying a specific concept. My passion for jewellery goes back to my childhood when I used to make pieces from found objects and sit in my room drawing what I wanted to create. This need to create led me to follow a degree course in Jewellery Design in London. During the past 4 years, after graduating, I have been handcrafting jewellery in a workshop space now based in Lebanon. My projects start with a concept and then my hands do the rest. The creative process is a play between assembling metal scraps, sketching, taking photographs, shaping paper and researching about the concept. Inspiration often comes during the making process but it is also nourished by personal experiences, conversations, nature etc. My interest is focused on enamel, a very traditional technique which I use in my own way, exploring texture, colour and light reflection. The surprises I get when experimenting keep me going…
Fei He
Based in London
Jewellery and eyewear designer Fei He is keen on exploring various materials and techniques to realize multiple functions. He believes it would be a world of androgyny had there been a Utopia. Therefore all his accessories are suitable for all genders. Fei values the joy and changes accessories bring to wearers, physically and psychologically. The diverse design of function allows wearers to ornament their bodies in their own way. Each piece is exquisitely made by hand and well balanced between beauty and edginess, offering a fresh sensation to us all.
As the editor in chief of YiPin Magazine and contributor writer of Findings, Fei shares his love for jewellery and the industry via words with a broad audience, “to see, to be seen and to let see”. Apart from being a designer, Fei works as an art director who creates narratives for fashion magazines, as photography is another huge enthusiasm. His work (alongside his jewellery) is now featured in magazines such as FuckingYoung!, KALTBLUT, Nasty, Metal, SICKY, Design Scene, PANSY, FGUK, L’OFFICIEL, VOGUE Italia etc.
Kathleen Reilly
Based in Tokyo
Kathleen Reilly is a Scottish artist and metalworker. She graduated from The Glasgow School of Art Silversmithing & Jewellery department in 2015 and completed her Masters in Jewellery & Metal at the Royal College of Art in 2018. She has won numerous awards and grants for her practice with work in both public and private collections. Recently Reilly was awarded the Daiwa Scholarship by the Daiwa-Anglo Japanese Foundation. By writing poetry she observes and absorbs fleeting moments and unconscious actions within her every day. Key texts are chosen and abstracted to form tangible outcomes. As she associates her writings with the physical world, memories are awoken and juxtapositions formed. Reilly plays with the semiotic qualities of her objects that seemingly flux between
circumstance.
Her work encompasses a broad range of technical and industrial processes, including
electroforming, moulding making and die cutting, with a focus on the power of material and composition to shift entrenched understandings. Reilly reinvents the commonplace with elegant and often witty outcomes that can carry ambiguous functions.
Angela Hou
Based in Taipei
Founded in 2021 in Taipei City, Taiwan, ANG Jewellery is an original jewellery design company recognised for its unparallel aesthetics and mechanism. ANG is abbreviation of “Angela” and “A New Game”. We are “fashion, innovative and joyful” – it’s in our creation and the relationship we have with our internal teams and the ANG lovers around the world.
ANG currently provides 6 collections of hand-finished jewellery made from genuine materials, including 925 silver and 14k or 18k rose gold and yellow gold. We use a variety of zirconia, colour stones and cultured pearls to add colour and sparkles to our genuine jewellery. The pure sterling silver 925 we use is also mostly from recycled sources.
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Yingqi ‘Puffy’ Zhao
Based in Chicago
The Wanlie License crew, in short, is a push and pull between “making sure all surfaces are 100% parallel to one another” and “breaking every single pattern to find peace in chaos”. Wanlie License is our ongoing daily ritual of inputting stimulus, emotion, and memory while outputting wearable art for the world.
Yingqi ‘Puffy’ Zhao, Wanlie License’s designer, is a contemporary jeweler and co-founder of the Wanlie Project artist platform. Following the completion of her MFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design from Indiana University Bloomington, Zhao shaped her creative experiments into Wanlie License. In Chinese, Wanlie represents two definitions, the quality of being playful, and throwing-chestnut-towards-the-sky goose. Wanlie License sprouted in 2020 to create playful sculptural objects on the body. Nurtured by prototyping and tuning, Wanlie License debuted with an adventurous mindset in 2022. Wanlie License explores the inspiring odds and ends, the balance of hard surface and soft line, and the dynamic between the wearer and the object.
Sara Chyan
Based in London
Sara Chyan is a jewellery artist who explores the unique properties of bismuth to create one-of-a-kind pieces. Bismuth's distinctive properties have inspired her to create unique pieces of jewellery and art. Sara combines bismuth with other materials in her work.
By manipulating the temperature of the metal, she is able to produce a wide range of colours, from deep blues to vibrant greens. One colour reflects the different temperatures the metal has burned at. In addition, the geometric shapes that she creates are unlike anything that has been seen before. As a result, her work is truly mesmerising and one-of-a-kind. Sara Chyan founded her brand in 2018 based on a project she began while studying for her Master in Jewellery & Metal at the Royal College of Art.
Jack Lee
Based in London
Jack Lee, a multi-disciplinary designer and artist from Taiwan, specialises in creating interactive experiences through technology art. Throughout his academic journey, he studied various specialisations at schools from Taipei (Taiwan), Brno (Czechia) to London (UK). These diverse experiences helped shape his multidisciplinary background. His areas of expertise include Product Design, Digital Art, and Physical Computing.
Studying MA in Design Products at the RCA, he explores the convergence of art and design, employing his multi-disciplinary knowledge to craft captivating projects. Lee's works engage viewers, provoke contemplation, and foster a deeper connection between art, design and the audience.
Yiwen Zhang
Based in Birmingham
I am an artist with a background in jewellery design, working mainly in the Birmingham area of the UK and mainland China, I focus on explore enamelling works(a kind of traditional material with long history) in the contemporary visual context, creating new visual effects through the flexible use of enamel techniques in cooperation with different kinds of enamel glazes. Variations in rich texture and colour are important in my enamel works as I aim to evoke emotional resonance in people through touching and wearing these pieces.
Lindsay Yin
Based in London
Lindsay Yin, native from China, graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor's Degree in Film, and then studied Illustration at the University for the Creative Arts in the UK for her Master's Degree, where she worked in various forms of oil painting and digital art. As a rising artist of Generation Z, her diverse background gives her works a global perspective. Her works are mostly based on the theme of linking the past, present and future, focusing on the changes in people's lives and the problems they need to face under the rapid development of technology. The colour blue and various forms of water are recurring elements in her works, giving a sense of solitude and serenity.
Seven
Based in London
I hail from a background rooted in interior design, my artistic journey having unfolded within the bustling heart of Shanghai, a global fashion hub. Over the course of a decade, I have immersed myself in the world of space art design. My pursuit, however, extends beyond these boundaries; it delves into the intricate interplay of fashion, design, and art.
My creative sensibilities are nurtured by an unwavering quest for innovation, a ceaseless exploration fuelled by visits to exhibitions and adventures into uncharted territories. These endeavours unearth the concealed links threading through art, design, and fashion, often revealing profound beauty in their convergence.
I believe that within this fusion of disciplines lies an untapped reservoir of possibilities. Therein exists an opportunity to redefine the boundaries of creativity, to discover new avenues that transcend convention. Each experience, each encounter, enriches my design philosophy, forging a dynamic fusion of design, fashion, and art that serves as the guiding framework for exploring the dynamic interplay between life and art, style and substance.
Kyubin Hur
Based in London
Kyubin Hur is a visual communicator based in London and Daegu, specialising in editorial, branding, and conceptual design. As a visual communicator, Kyubin strives to bridge the gap between artistic practice and the audience by incorporating logic into his work, ensuring intuitive understanding of the results. He finds satisfaction in effectively conveying his intentions and the content of his work to the audience.
He has been interested in humanities and Philosophy of Language. Within this broadened and vague study area, He delves into the profound questions that have crossed the minds of individuals, yet prove challenging to articulate in words, and seeks to address them through the power of visual elements.
Uva Wang
Based in Manchester
Uva Wang, a young artist based in Manchester, holds degrees from the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Salford. Proficient in digital, acrylic, oil painting, and watercolor, her work delves into the intricate world of girls’ minds.
With the experience of creating captivating comics and powerful paintings, Uva Wang passionately explores the inner thoughts and experiences of girls. She primarily employs acrylic and oil as her preferred mediums for this purpose.
Her art delves into the complex emotional landscapes of woman and girls, delving deep into their dreams, aspirations, and the world as they perceive it. Through her work, she aims to shed light on the unique and evolving experiences of girls, presenting their stories with empathy and reverence.
Uva Wang’s inspiration comes from the rich inner worlds of girls, as she translates their thoughts and emotions into striking visual narratives. She strives to create thought-provoking and visually captivating pieces that offer a glimpse into the minds of the next generation.
As a society continues to evolve, Uva Wang’s art serves as a reflection of the vibrant minds of girls who shape the future. She invites viewers to explore her work and join her in celebrating the complexity, creativity, and potential of young girls through the world of art.