LESLYE ZHANG
Cluster Contemporary Jewellery Exhibitor 2021 & 2022
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Leslye ZHANG learned professional knowledge and skills of contemporary jewellery design in Metal Craft Studio at Shanghai University Academy of Fine Arts in 2018. And in the year 2021, she received her degree in MA Design (Jewellery and Metalwork) from Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
She is currently based in Shanghai, China.
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She chooses metal wire crochet evokes this submarine world: organic, colourful, soft, and transparent.
"Living things are irregular. The rules will never be mine. Each piece of work is like breeding a unique life, this is my creation state. Error is beauty, a work of nature."
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Because of her background in biology, Leslye ZHANG likes to focus on the overlooked creatures.
Her works use the visual language of jewellery to highlight the threat posed to underwater creatures by human activity.
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