Quanjing Mao

This is an emotional visualisation project, returning to the essence of jewellery, which involves narrative and storytelling. Quanjing has expressed the best memories of these five years in the form of jewellery, and she plans to make a collection to record the memories. Quanjing is now living alone in London. Fortunately, her good friend left her some of her basic living tools and equipment, mainly kitchen items which makes her feel that she is not eating and living alone when she uses them to eat every day. In parallel time and space, they are together.

When Quanjing finished the work and showed it to her friend, the friend was so moved that she cried. They will see each other in August and continue to work on a spin-off project called ‘Intimacy’. It's also about continuing to express that friendship through work.

As people increasingly rely on the convenience of technology, health has become one of the issues that people pay more and more attention to.

Cycling is an environmentally friendly and full-body activity, and Quanjing plans to use creative and attractive jewellery to raise awareness about people's lifestyles.

She aims to make engaging and analytical cycling tools which beautify and engage cyclists. ‘22’ is the model of the future 22nd-century bicycle.

She is going to continue this project until it is portable and abe to be used. She hopes to find a suitable material in the future for it to become a part of everyday life as a mature jewellery work.

The work was based around the concept of 'original sin' - the idea that all humans led to sin by either knowledge or ignorance, and that all sins first occur through sight of 'desired', but remain hidden to others. The work sought to make these sins visible, literally bringing them to the surface. The form of the eyeball and 'bubbles' that referenced her birth mark (a small growth behind the ear which she believed to be a visible mark of her own sins) were used to represent and carry these ideas. She wanted the object – a glass sphere with a black liquid inside – to react to touch, and said that 'a rise in temperature caused by the presence of sin' would cause the liquid to bubble in an 'ugly' way to the surface. The work was 3D modelled, as this is an area she is most interested in and wants to develop within her practice. It is a concept piece. She also made a series of rings, using bubble forms.