QIAN SUN
Cluster Contemporary Jewellery Exhibitor | 2024
Qian Sun completed her MA and MFA in Fashion Design in China, 2022 and studied at Sheffield Hallam University, MFA in Jewellery and Metalwork. She received an distinction at Graduate Design in 2024 winning a Silver Scholarship at the Sheffield Assay Office and Assay Masters Recognition Award. The artist's work pushes the boundaries of traditional jewellery design, combining her understanding of fashion with the fine skills of metal craftsmanship to give the pieces a unique emotional value and memorable meaning. In her continuous exploration and use of materials, techniques and forms, she demonstrates a revolutionary understanding of traditional jewellery and a deep insight into the use of materials.
Qian Sun's works use dog hair as a material, dyeing it and combining it with metal materials to show the overlooked beauty of nature, as well as using abstract images to represent the dogs themselves. Sun Qian believes that the life of a pet is very short compared to that of a human. She believes that wearing jewellery is a kind of interaction with precious memories. She collects their stories and uses her designs to depict how they look like in the eyes of their owners, and turns them into jewellery to commemorate them and stay with them forever.