Qi Han

Qi Han is a jewellery designer, artist and sculptor currently based in China. She graduated from the  Affiliated High School to the China Academy of Art, and then obtained a Bachelor's degree at the China Academy of Art, majoring in Sculpture. After that, she decided to enter the Royal College of Art (Jewelry and Metal programme) for further study. Most of her works are narrative: Balance plays an essential role in this context. The balance between life and death, Ying and Yang, light and shadow constitute the taste  of life. She enhances the wearer's desire to explore the work by designing hidden mechanisms and  different ways of wearing.  

Exhibitions and Awards:  

2015: Color-painting Nomination Exhibition by Nantong Youth Artists Association  2018: Academic papers published:  

‘A Brief Introduction to Art Commonality – Sculpture and Contemporary Jewellery Design’ (published in  Literature Life). (ISSN 1005-5312) 

‘The Facial and Kinetic Performance of Traditional Buddha Statue - a Brief Introduction to Art  Characteristics of the Skanda Statue at Shuanglin Temple and the 24 Painted Sculptural Works at  ShuiluAn’ (published in Fine Arts Literature). （ISSN 1673-4858） 

2019: Rated as the outstanding graduate of the China Academy of Art  

Lin Fengmian award: Bronze award  

WINJOY jewelry competition: Gold award  

2020: Membership of Association Alliages, the work Forget and Remember was exhibited in ‘Painful hope’ in Lille, France  

Membership of Klimt02

2021: Forget and Remember was exhibited in ‘Metal +?’ 

Dream within a Dream was exhibited in ‘Double Yellow Line’ in Moscow  

‘From the moment of meeting, embracing to parting, the intimate contact of the body to the gradual separation, the temperature weakening from a physical point of view, to the fading of conscious memory,  time plays the role of accumulating warmth and extreme cruelty in our life. Only the heat of the beating  heart, loving and missing, and the obsession with not wanting to let you go, can bring you to my side again.’

Memory is an indispensable part of humans. The contradiction of memory is that it is very precious, but it will be forgotten as time goes by. The memory Qi cherishes most is with the passing of her grandmother. Based on her grandmother’s words and memories of her, Qi designed two series of works. In terms of the language of the series, she uses metal to express the feeling of preciousness and the restraining of love and memory, while she uses paper to deliver the recording of experiences and time in a folding series. When people touch and play with her pieces of jewellery, she wants the work to drive their fatigue away and recall their valuable moments.  Touching is moveable and romantic.  Qi presents her pieces in photographs in which she is seen wearing and handling the pieces to emphasise the depth of her feeling and its physicality. The images capture a new connection to her grandma witnessed by the viewer as a contemplative state induced as a result of these interactions.