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The curtain acts as the screen of the projection of my mind thinking about this topic in the form of several clips of videos.

Society is always setting rules for people in regards to sexuality.

Becky Guo is a multidisciplinary designer based in London. She is passionate about Biomimicry, Science and Human-centered design. Becky envisions her practice to explore, extract and learn from nature to foster an imaginative world, allowing us to adapt and escape reality for the well-being of present and future generations.

Camila Barvo, born in Medellín, Colombia, is a mix media textile artist based in London. With a background in textile design from La Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, she became passionate about embroidery as a language of expression and driven to pursue textiles from a conceptual and material research.

Chandler Cheng is a pioneer in the field of digital fabrication, turning the impossible into reality. He is passionate about speculative design and 3D technology, exploring the possibilities of human enhancement through a unique blend of sculpture, robotics, and biomimicry. His advanced 3D printed installations provoke thought about the future.

"Hybrid is not a third term that resolves the tension between two cultures" but rather one that holds the tension of the opposition and explores the spaces in-between fixed identities through their continuous reiterations." -- Homi K. Bhabha, Third Space 1994: 113.

This project concerns the cycle of emotional blackmail that has established a personal or intimate relationship between two people.

Cindy Xinyi Wu was born in China and is currently based in London, UK, as a jewellery designer. She studied visual arts in the United States, where she gained a robust background in various visual arts disciplines. Subsequently, Cindy obtained her Bachelor's degree from the BA Jewellery Design Course at Central Saint Martins. Her jewellery pieces transcend mere accessories; they are sculptural works that merge with the wearer’s body, narrating personal stories through art.

"A Crack in Everything" is inspired by the broken floor tiles in Finsbury park station and developed from the traditional eggshell inlay technique to explore the interaction between people's body and ground.

Ekta Bagri is an innovative ceramic artist and researcher based in Oxford. Her artistic journey began with a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and History of Art from Goldsmiths University of London, followed by a Master's in Ceramics & Glass from the Royal College of Art, London. Currently, she is pursuing a Master of Science in Archaeology of Asian Ceramics at Oxford University.

Eva Buryakovsky is a proactive and curious textile designer specialising in print and embroidery. She is originally from Russia and bases her projects around Slavic mythology and heritage craft practices. Through her education and work experience, she has acquired an in-depth understanding of traditional and digital textile-making techniques, which she implements in her narrative-led projects. She is oriented to utilise her skills within the fashion industry, with an emphasis on historical research and bespoke design.

Having grown up in Taipei and currently residing in London, I have intermittently returned to Taiwan over the years. During these visits, I have often documented the urban landscapes and streets of Taipei.

Guo Cheng is a multidisciplinary artist and interior designer currently studying for a Masters in Interior Design at the Royal College of Art in London. She holds a BA in Exhibition Design from the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts and her work incorporates space transformation, architecture, film, costume props and installation art.

It's on a blazing planet where the sun never seems to set, where one day seems like an eternity, and you're stuck in this perpetual daytime waiting for the sun to set. Because you made a deal with him that you would get a call from him when the sun finally goes down.

Temptastic is a display font designed to investigate the science of the brain.

Growing up, I have always leaned towards a mathematical approach. I have been fascinated by how the world around me could be expressed through mathematics and science, with each logical pattern expressed through an equation. From a young age, I learned textiles from my family, and my mother taught me to knit and embroider. I then developed these skills further at school. When I started studying at the Glasgow School of Art, I was interested in embroidery. I then began to link coding and mathematical patterns with the nature of weaves.

This series of photographs is curated from different collections I've created in the past. Some explore the themes of dreams and memories, others delve into the perception of deja vu, while a portion depicts cognitive errors.

Discover 'The Dots - II,' Jack Lee's interactive art installation. Precision, polarised film, and servo motors craft dynamic waves, exploring human mobility. Custom designs available, dimensions variable.

Jaxi Liu, a creative and dynamic Gemini, is a Chinese Fashion Visual Merchandising and Branding professional based in London. Originally trained in law with both undergraduate and master's degrees from China, Jaxi discovered her true passion in the world of art. This transition has enriched her work, blending analytical precision with creative flair.

Jian Gao was born and raised in Urumuqi, XinJiang, China. She has four siblings and is the third in her family. She completed her undergraduate studies in Fashion Design at FIDM in California, USA, and graduated with a master's degree in Jewelry & Metal from the Royal College of Art.

In the realm of jewellery design, Jiayi Zhang emerges as a visionary artist, whose creative journey began with a dedicated pursuit of knowledge at Central Saint Martins, where she earned her undergraduate degree in Jewelry Design. Jiayi's artistic ethos is rooted in an unwavering commitment to explore the vast possibilities that lie within materials, colours, and forms.

Heartbeat Topography is a real-time audio visualization project that draws inspiration from Polyvagal Theory and aims to promote bodily and emotional security. It converts the detected heartbeat into visual topography to guide users in actively establishing a connection with their bodies. It serves as a guide, allowing people to observe and adjust their breath and heart rhythms to achieve a state of balance and relaxation.

In my artistic journey, I explore both the world and myself, aiming to create a distinctive visual language. My work emphasizes a deep respect for nature and a commitment to sustainable development. This dedication informs my artistic practice and personal mission, advocating for environmental awareness and promoting harmony between humans and nature.

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 common place with elegant and often witty outcomes that can carry ambiguous functions.

"We make conversations like we breathe..."

My works capture various abstract expressions of. water flowing with time and light, using abstract images and different perspectives to lead everyone into special scenery in an abstract world. The shapes are familiar, but nothing is static, and each image is a different experience as time passes.

Immerse in Lindsay Yin's Pixel Artistry, where digital dots bridge the gap between reality and a pixelated future, reflecting our tech-immersed lives and environmental concerns.

Lingxi Zhang is a London-based artist and designer who graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2024. Her work explores the intersection of art, design, and technology, pushing the boundaries of traditional design practices.

Linye’s latest jewellery collection Unexpected Scent, investigates the relationship between fragrance and jewellery design. A collection of wearable scented jewellery is made by combining scented materials that have everyday scents known to the public with metals.

My designs express my deep understanding and emotional connection with the architectural lines and recreate the texture.

Based in London and Guangzhou, Meishuo Liu is a contemporary jewellery artist who graduated with a degree in Jewellery & Metal from the Royal College of Art. She is dedicated to creating jewellery that offers a natural and playful experience. Over the past two years, Liu has focused on utilizing natural materials, skillfully combining her craftsmanship expertise with a passion for merging traditional techniques with modern design. Her "Time Drip" collection was showcased at the London Design Festival 2024.

Miki Asai’s jewellery is inspired by intangible and those fleeting and changeable phenomenon, and how this portrays the nature of everything in the world. Her aesthetics and concept are strongly based on her Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in impermanence, imperfection, transience and ephemerality.

Mizuki is a London -based contemporary jewellery artist. During her studies at Central Saint Martins, she has focused on sustainability in her projects from the start of her degree. She strongly believes that sustainable thinking can be a positive, creative force and uses this mindset to drive her designs. Mizuki aims to challenge the perception of everyday materials, adding value to them by using her jewellery skills to reassess our relationship with waste. She believes in making a direct change to our actions for sustainability through her jewellery.

"L'OISEAU EN CAGE" is a poignant exploration of the intricate struggles women face within the confines of marriage.

With romantic and dreamy aesthetics, Molly, a London-based jewelry artist, graduate from Royal College of Art, masterfully blends traditional craftsmanship with contemporary sensibilities. Specializing in exquisite wedding jewelry, she creates pieces that tell captivating stories through photography. Her work has been showcased in prestigious exhibitions worldwide, including renowned galleries in London and international Jewelry Weeks. Molly meticulously combines age-old techniques with modern design principles, infusing each creation with profound meaning. Her jewelry, distinguished by symbolic elements and intricate details, captures emotions and narratives, transforming them into wearable art.

The material uses a self-developed metal alloy to convert the physical effects of the metal to make it brittle and cracked. The result of mixing different formulations of metal affects the texture of the material, making it unique, and achieving a special texture effect by melting and destroying the surface of metal until the cracks appeared.

Repairing Fruits
"I have a dream of witnessing a world where all fruits retain their natural seeds and original appearance, preserving their intrinsic beauty and diversity."

Muyan Gao is an artist who creates paper pulp works that explore the relationship between sculpture and functionality. With a BA from the Glasgow School of Art and an MFA from Chelsea College of Art and Design, Muyan has utilized forms and recycled paper to make sculptures that can be used. She currently lives in Beijing and London, where she owns and operates her studio.

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.

The core idea of my project is to challenge the view that women have to be feminine.

These past couple of years have been hard on most of us. To people who are more outdoorsy it was like a never ending nightmare.

Ranjith's artistic journey is a captivating exploration of cultural identity and the human experience. Grounded in his Indian heritage, his creations serve as a bridge between tradition and modernity, weaving together narratives of diaspora and multiculturalism.

Rosie Grosvenor is a 2024 graduate from Manchester School of Art, with a First Class Honours Degree in Textiles in Practice. My practice as a knitted textile designer is rooted in heritage, with inspiration being pulled from my own ancestry to be articulated into a modern concept. I aim to push the form of knitted textiles through materiality and the manipulation of yarns to create experimental and dynamic outcomes.

Jewellery, far from being a mere decorative accessory, serves as a canvas for the expression of one's identity and emotions.

The number "7" is not just a digit; it's an integral facet of my identity.

Sijia Chen is a landscape designer, spatial designer, architect and illustrator who is committed to speaking out for environmental justice through her work.

Sixu is a jewellery designer who graduated from Central Saint Martins. Influenced by her mother, she has developed a keen interest in feminist themes, exploring these ideas deeply in her work. Her creations focus on examining the roles and identities of women within traditional societal frameworks, using jewellery design as a means to challenge and redefine cultural stereotypes about women.

Excitement is a quality that comes into being upon collapse of the quantifiable and measurable into the inexplicable and personal.

Shaden Almutlaq and Xiao Tan are artists based in London and the founders of Tectrix Collective. The duo met during their study at the RCA, where Xiao was working towards an MA in Textiles and Shaden in Design Products. Tectrix Collective is a platform that champions collaboration between artists and designers who prioritise ethical materiality.

In modern life, packaging serves as a thin layer between products and people, existing in a disposable realm. Beyond its functional purpose, packaging also conveys information.

This is a collection of digital art, which diverges from my proficiency in traditional painting, as I explore the realm of digital illustration.

There are two identities living inside the physical me. One of the duo is blank, calm, logical, organized, and restricted; the other one is full, dramatic, emotional, chaotic, and free. I am intrigued and inspired by the process of uniting materials that have distinctive texture, color, toughness, and transparency, which enables me to express my dual identities, and helps me visualize the growth of a newborn from an ambiguous seed to a matured form.

Xi Li is an artist and designer based in Beijing and London. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Printmaking from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in China and pursued her master's degree in Future Materials at Central Saint Martins in the UK. Xi Li has had a lifelong passion for art and observing life. During her undergraduate studies, she developed an interest in mixed media painting. After completing her bachelor's degree, she continued to create art alongside her professional work, experimenting with various artistic expressions and materials.

While I was living and studying in Glasgow, I began exploring the theme of time through various projects since the pandemic period when everything felt up in the air -- no idea where we were headed or how things would turn out, and how everything stays and changes in the river of time.

Born in China, Xiao received her Bachelor of Arts in Photography from the Communication University of China in 2023, with a minor in Digital Media Arts. She is studying at Royal College of Arts School of Communication to continue her MA education. Splitting her time between Beijing and London, her work has garnered recognition through various exhibitions, including showcases at the Media Museum of the Communication University of China (2023), the BanShan Gallery in Japan (2022), and the Zhejiang Art Museum (2020).

This project chronicles my journey from solitude, marked initially by negative emotions, towards a state of self-acceptance.

Xidian Wang is a designer and researcher based in Cambridge and London. Her projects focus on feminist architectural design, minority representation, and spatial justice. She has a keen interest in interdisciplinary approaches and media. With an MPhil degree from the University of Cambridge, her graduate thesis project, "New Domesticity: The Shared Life of Low-Income Single Mother Families in Tokyo," conducted in Cambridge and Tokyo, won several awards and nominations, including the Azure AZ Awards and the RIBA Presidents Medal. She received her Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Psychology from Tsinghua University, which shaped her perspective on the nuanced relationship between architectural spaces and people.

Xinyu Jiang's artistic journey is defined by academic rigor and creative exploration. Holding a Master's degree in Costume Design for Performance from the London College of Fashion, specializing in wearable arts, she adeptly navigates the convergence of fashion and art.

Master Textile design Chelsea college of arts
“Blossom behind the sea” install in Airbnb Hangzhou 2022
“Blossom behind the sea” install in “Beyond the west lake” 2022
“Narcissus” in London Fitzrovia Gallery “Mirror and shadow” Exhibition 2024

Xuanbo Cao is an art worker based in London, her inspirations are all from nature, plants and daily life, from where collect colours, shapes and compositions. She is trying to find the balance between representation and abstract art, combine different materials to make works more creative. Vivid colours and lively shapes are her unique style in her works.

Xuanlin He is a textile artist specializing in knitting and natural dyeing. She holds a master's degree in textiles from the Royal College of Art and a bachelor's degree in fashion from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. Xuanlin has mastered traditional textile techniques and has showcased her work at China Graduate Fashion Week.

Xuechen Wang is a jewellery artist and designer living and studying in London. She has just completed her MA in Jewellery and Metal at the RCA. She creates through a cross-media artistic practice, including but not limited to contemporary jewellery, objects, and graphic works. Her work has been exhibited in London, Shanghai and Beijing and gained attention. Her practice is based on her understanding and imagination of the theory of vital materialism, connecting material culture, environmental relations and body propositions.

Shen Xueyan is a textile artist and designer based in London and Tianjin. She completed her undergraduate studies in Fashion Design at the Istituto Marangoni, where she developed a strong foundation in the principles of fashion and design. Pursuing her passion for textiles, Shen furthered her education at the renowned Royal College of Art, earning a master’s degree in Textile.

Dive into a world of intricate brooches by Yiwen Zhang, drawing inspiration from Edvard Munch's exploration of life's complexities in vibrant enamel hues.

Each jewellery piece acts as a portal, inviting viewers to traverse temporal boundaries and witness the seamless continuity between traditions and future possibilities.

Yanran Wang is an Multidisciplinary designer who enjoys using speculative and critical design to explore the "cracks in life." She aims to engage in social interventions through warm yet powerful design language, promoting humanistic care and exploring the diverse possibilities of interactions between humans and the environment.

I have always believed that true beauty is hermaphroditic, a unity of two poles.

“Take the biscuits” is the chapter one of the Unknown Beings. An Anthropomorphised object is given a unique personality to create scenarios in experimental materials.

As an international visual artist and Calligrapher, Ling aspires to evoke interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dialogues in her works.

In this envisioned world, objects are not as merely created but as discovered elements of an imagined realm, each narrating a fragment of a larger story.

Yichen Zhao is a jewellery artist and designer who graduated with an undergraduate degree in jewellery from Central Saint Martins. Living and working in the UK, China.

He uses humour and thoughtfulness in his work, combining design and production methods to question the identity and meaning of jewellery and objects. His work is a personal response to everyday experiences and observations.

“I certainly love to see the freedom and breathing spaces while creating my embroidery pieces.”

Ying Lin is a London-based architectural designer. She specializes in integrating advanced technology with architecture, focusing on innovative, sustainable designs that dynamically respond to contemporary urban challenges.

Holding this "eye"brooch in your hand enables you to see yourself though your own eyes, when looking at the back peace of the brooch, which is polished to a mirror-like effect

Yiqing Xie is a jewellery artist who graduated from the London College of Fashion, specialising in Fashion Jewellery. Her work explores the fusion of traditional and unconventional materials, drawing inspiration from her cultural background.

Yirui Deng is a jewellery artist who has completed her MA degree in RCA Jewellery and Metal in London, Bachelor degree of Gold and Silversmithing from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Yiyuan Bai held a postgraduate degree in textiles from the Royal College of Art in London 2023, where she focused on making sustainable materials from herbal medicines, beans, sodium alginates, tree leaves and other natural sources. She applied her bio-design and CMF expertise to craft bio-materials and explored the effects of natural dyeing on herbal medicines.

This project explores how clothing serves as a medium for expressing personal identity.

Yuanyuan Hu is a media artist and multimedia designer.
Born in China, she is currently studying in MA Interaction Design at the University of the Arts London. She focuses on the combination of ecology, classical culture, technological philosophy and future narratives, and uses artificial intelligence as a driving force to produce immersive interactive multimedia installations and performances that build worlds at the intersection of the physical and digital realms.

I explored the concept of identity in art and design, highlighting the tendency to categorize works by similar characteristics, such as materials, which often leads to overlooking their diversity. To challenge this stereotypical thinking, I aim to stop defining rigid categories and instead promote a more open perspective on objects, maintaining their possibilities.

Yuwei Qian, a graduate of Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, in Jewellery Design, is passionate about exploring the intersection of technology and traditional craftsmanship.

Yuxin Luo（b.2000）is a Textiles Designer who is currently based in Wuhan, China. With a background in Fashion Design, she focuses on the sustainable development and materials of society and fashion industry.

Zan Wang (b. 1997) is a professional artist and researcher based in London, UK. Currently, she is a PhD researcher in contemporary art and philosophy at Lancaster University. She completed her BFA at the School of Visual Arts in 2019 and her MFA in Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2021.

Zheyuan is a multi-disciplinary artist actively engaged in the field of visual communications, fine arts, experience design and creative programming. Curiosity is the number one driver. Zheyuan is keen to explore the combination of concept and vision and believes that ideas and techniques are fluid and open. Zheyuan likes to design easily and joyfully, bringing a pleasant experience to the output.

"Anti-consumerism for Women" is a compelling video piece that captures the destruction of elaborate lipstick crowns, symbolising the disillusionment with the illusions perpetuated by consumerism and societal expectations.

The set of 2D photographic works emphasises the concept of multistable images, ranging from distorted human bodies to the imitation of a solar eclipse held by hands. It questions the confusion caused by the vision and the sequence of being, leading to a disruption of order.

All of my imagination and fascination came from layered and/or distorted light and shadow cast on various surfaces, which sometimes tricks you into illusion. To realize the beautiful contrast, I need glass, the material that changes its shape so easily with the heat that I’d forget that most of the time, it is still and hard object.