XINYI CHEN, Great Britain
Inflatable, Maze Intelligence Series
Her practice combines digital manufacturing processes with traditional crafts technique and found objects. By glorifying e-waste as a luxury material within the framework of a circular economy, her jewelry challenges and proposes a transgressive approach to what we value in the future, while emphasizing the boundary between the “physical” and the “digital” and demonstrating a new way of living in digital admiration and enjoyment.
Material: recycled sterling silver, e-waste (ceramic capacitor), PVD
Technique: 3D scanning, 3D printing, prong setting, casting, soldering, polishing, electroplating
Xinyi Chen is an award-winning designer and creator based in England, specializing in working with recycled electronic components and silver, transforming them into wearable art since 2016. After a career as a fashion selector, senior jewellery consultant and photographer, she returned to the craft of creating art by hand. She graduated in Art Design in China with a specialization in jewelry and metalwork and began exploring contemporary jewelry with the extravagant New Era of Crown collection. After completing her MA at Central Saint Martins, she founded her own brand EÈ CHAN, with which she continued her career and practice. Her work has been presented at prestigious international events such as Goldsmiths' Fair (London), MAD About Jewelry (New York), TALENTE Handwerk & Design and BKV Prize (Munich), Royal Treasure Museum (Lisbon) and published in Crafts and IDEAT Magazine. Her artwoek is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Arts and Design, The Goldsmiths’ Company and Le Arti Orafe.
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