Xiaoqing Liu started her studies in China and continued in London at Central Saint Martins, where she completed an MA in Jewellery Design in 2017. Liu explores materiality in her work. He graduate collection ‘Contrast & Fusion’ shows the application of the traditional Chinese material, white jade in jewellery and white agate to traverse texture, transparency and the varying qualities between solids and liquids.
Liu was inspired by these diverse matters in the world as they exist in every aspect of our day to day lives. In order to understand what they demonstrate to each individual it was important to explore their materiality.
Liu believes that transferring material’s personalities into jewellery language is jeweller’s job. The white agate creates a translucent, soft atmosphere and the blackened silver imitates the fluidity of liquid through different directional states, which created a contrasting mood.
Liu was inspired by these diverse matters in the world as they exist in every aspect of our day to day lives. In order to understand what they demonstrate to each individual it was important to explore their materiality.
Liu believes that transferring material’s personalities into jewellery language is jeweller’s job. The white agate creates a translucent, soft atmosphere and the blackened silver imitates the fluidity of liquid through different directional states, which created a contrasting mood.
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