Xuechen Wang
Jewellery & Metal MA
Royal College of Art
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Jewelry / Contemporary Craft / Graphic Design
My location: London, United Kingdom
Xuechen Wang
First Name: Xuechen
Last Name: Wang
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program: Jewellery & Metal MA
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Jewelry / Contemporary Craft / Graphic Design
My Location: London, United Kingdom
About
Xuechen Wang is a Jeweller and artist who specialises in making jewellery, utensils and body sculptures. Most of her works come from her observation and thinking about everything around her. She is keen on studying the cultural and material properties of materials existing in specific environments, and how they have interesting connections with people. Her ongoing projects deal with carpets, nature and space, and she hopes to engage in artistic exploration by creating a new metal expression. In the future, she will continue to make contemporary crafts and experiment with more art forms.
My work "Stability Seeking" consists of 8 containers and objects. Centred around the study of the materiality of carpets, I explored the relationship between carpets, space and human’s traces. I believe that carpets are carriers in an abstract sense, so in my creation, I deconstruct the function of carriers and imagine the transformation of form and material when carpets are made into concrete containers. In terms of material selection, I first collected and dismantled several second-hand carpets, and then used electroforming to wrap the metal layer by layer on the carpet and harden it, showing a unique metal mechanism. These containers bring new life to old carpets, giving them new functionality and value.
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