AKANE HAYASHI

Cluster Contemporary Jewellery Exhibitor | December 2024

 
 
 

Akane Hayashi is a Japanese artist, who creates her works using a unique technique of sewing sequins together with thread. She was born and raised in Osaka, she frequently visited her mother’s family home deep in the mountains of Tokushima, where she went to the river, came into contact with living creatures and plants, and became familiar with nature. These experiences are the source of her inspiration.

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From an early age, she loved to draw and went to a high school where she could learn many arts, studying illustration, painting, and design, and in college she majored in textile art and leather crafts.

Since that time, most of the motifs in her work have been related to nature and living creatures. At the same time, she observed people’s communication and realised that words reflect people’s hidden psychology, and she noticed that nature and living things are often used as metaphors to describe people’s behaviour and nature.
She believes that jewellery is a tool that expresses the person itself, a communication tool, and like a talisman that works just by wearing it.

 

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Akane is an artist who expresses various forms of communication in the form of jewellery, including people's emotions, actions, and the metaphor that represents them.

Organisms are made up of many cells, and from a single cell, they repeatedly divide and differentiate, transforming into different forms. She felt that sewing small sequins one after the other created unexpected shapes and that, like cells, they had infinite possibilities.

Jewellery, she believes, is often worn on parts of the body associated with the psyche. Brooches and necklaces are worn on the chest, rings on the hands that touch the chest or head when expressing emotions, and earrings on the ears that hear voices. And jewellery is a tool that allows all people to express themselves publicly.

"Sometimes to hide your heart, sometimes to be yourself, and sometimes to object.” These actions have no substance and we do not see them, but she gives them cells and makes them visible, and when people wear them, they give new meaning to the jewellery.

 

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