1. Presentation
Shirley Liu
CEG

2. Craft Contemporary with a little bit classical Abstract Laser cutter
STYLE
Contemporary with a little bit classical
Abstract
SKILL
Laser cutter
Piercing
Soldering
Filing
drilling
MATERIALS
Plastic
Acrylic resin
Copper
Aluminum
Craft

3. Liaung Chung Yen
Liaung-Chung Yen was born and raised in Taiwan and his jewelry and artistic aesthetic is influenced by both Chinese culture and art. By using metaphor in his design, he thinks of his jewelry as small expressions of art, desire, wit or sensuality, documenting the time and the emotion in which he lives.
Yen’s work is also an exploration of sculpture form in jewelry by using geometric shapes and architectural structures. By arranging the similar forms in repetition, he tries to create the sense of rhythm in space. The wire forms and structures are hand fabricated and require countless solder points, creating strength, durability as well as the sense of delicacy in his jewelry. The inspiration comes from the structure of nature, plants, rocks and minerals, landscape, and architecture. The materials that he used are mostly 18k gold, sterling silver and precious stones. The techniques include fabrication, forming, fusing, soldering and stone setting.
Yen received his Master of Fine Art at Savannah College of Art and Design. Prior to this he studied at the National Taiwan Academy of Art and the Taiwan Provincial Handicraft Research Institute. He received the 2013 NICHE Award in Gold with stone category, MJSA Vision award in 2012 and 2007, fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in 2005, He features in the Metalsmith magazine Exhibition in Print 2007, 500 series by lark books, Art Jewelry Today 2, Adorn: New Jewelry. He has participated in a number of exhibitions, including The International Expositions of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art (SOFA), Metal Inclinations 2, “Touching warms the Art” in Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon, Cheongju International Craft Biennale in Korea, “Recycle Design Prize” in Germany and “Lagd i verden(Made in the world)” for the National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture in Norway.

4. Liaung Chung Yen

5. Colleen Baran
A jewellery designer who comes from Canada, all of her designs are simple, the materials are easy to own, even the materials are tiny or look like rubbish.

6. Colleen Baran

7. Material and construction

8. Final outcome