She is also the winner of the JOYA Award at Athens Jewelry Week 2020, the Findings Issue 70 Competition, the Amber Trip 2020 Art Jewelry Contest, and a top-5 artist of Arte y Joya International Award 2021. 

Chien Yu Liu is an art jeweller who works in interdisciplinary contexts across jewellery, metalsmithing, and photography. She gained the bench skills in Melbourne Polytechnic and then carried on to complete the Graduate Certificate as well as her MA degree from Birmingham City School of Jewellery in 2019. After graduating, she had been nominated in JPLUS Emerging Talent Award on Klimt02.

Up to now, Chien Yu Liu’s practice has been transformed into hammering discourses. And she is interested in working from cities to cities, being engaged in social themes.

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“By virtue of the hammering techniques, I attempt to interrogate the boundary between absence and presence, heaviness and lightness. I like to manifest the metallic mediums in the various manual processes. It is, in the meanwhile, contemplative so that I am attentive to the preciousness relies on the artisanal efforts.”