Art Space Display

Traditional Chinese Shadow Box

Classic Chinese Shadow Box is for storing and displaying your small collectibles, and normally made by wood.

I used the perspex to made my shadow box.

Finished Lucky Cloud Tea Pot

Tea pot made by 925 sliver and ebony wood.

I etching the Lucky Cloud pattern on the bottom surface.

My tea pot design is different with normal one, I separated the pot body and bottom tray. The traditonal pattern contain the unique chinese heritage, but simple shape wood handle express the contemporary feel.

Lucky Clouds Tea Cup 2

925 silver and ebony.

I made one set of tea cup by four that each cup has lucky clouds pattern, but with different handle.

Lucky cloud teapot body

These are rough Lucky cloud teapot body. I just use hammer to tap out the teapot body shape. The whole process was finished on the different size of ball punch.

Lucky Cloud Tea Cup

I will use Lucky clouds pattern etching on my silver cup.

Normal tea cup's handle doesn't look like this, I put this handle try to made my cup looks more contemporary. I try to use jewellery technique to re- expression tea cup. later, I will make whole tea set.

This is my Final work -- Lucky cloud tea cup. Let's drik !

Silver Vessels

Wine Container
Silversmith: Zhao Wei
Material: Silver; sandalwood; Ore

I like her this work, because she used different material, and particular idea as well. She use the different poly and method to expression normal wine container, made it looks more contemporary and unique style.

Bowl

Silversmith: Tang Xuxiang

Material: Silver

I like his works, because he used Chinese traditional pattern. This bowl's shape is very simple, but the pattern made it looks more elegant.

GongFu Tea Cups

The first impression for Chinese GongFu tea cups is tiny and exquisite. Normally, Chinese people using purple sand(zi sha) or Porcelin to made it. Cause GongFu Tea is a kind of tea ceremony, Chinese people prefer put some beautiful pattern or Chinese calligraphy at Cups outside surface, so the drinking is more like a kind of art.

If you interesting with Chinese tea culture, you can view following website: http://tea.timzhao.com/ctcom/index.html

GongFu Tea Equipment

(Source from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_tea_culture)

Tea is traditional drink for the Chinese people's daily lives. GongFu Tea is a tea ceremony in China. The GongFu Tea equipment are all tiny and exquisite. A smaller tea pot about 200cc capacity, Tiny tea cups as the size of half walnuts, usually 4 pieces in one set. The tea pot and cups can be made of china, but more usually, it is made of the Chinese special material called "Zi Sha" (purple sand pottery). (Source from:http://tea.timzhao.com/ctcom/METHOD/gongfu.html)

Picture for Exhibition Invitation

Lucky cloud etching test piece

pattern from Olympic torch

2008 Olympic torch's pattern --lucky cloud comes from The Zhou dynasty, this dynasty “Lucky Cloud” pattern does not looks like cloud at all. It looks like scrolls of volume. “Lucky Cloud” is the sign of arrival of fortune. This heavenly phenomenon giving signs of fortune is of course very rare to happen.

So I attempt to etch this pattern on the silver plate, as well as try to use these test pieces to make some jewellery or vessel.

Lucky Clouds Bangle 3

This is the final piece of Lucy Cloud Bangle, I try to created a animated feeling through the silver plate that inlayed in left side, it looks just like growth from wooden bangle.
I put sliver plate at inner bangle, that looks match with my whole work, as well as increase my work value.

Featured jewellery

Bangle: Resin
Source from:http://www.nooca.me/search_result.asp?SortID=10&page=3

Jeweller: Hu Jun, is a metalsmith and jewellery designer in China. He perfectly links Chinese culture with contemporary ideas in his products. He prefers to use simple shape linking with Chinese traditional pattern, that integrate forms with ideas.
This bangle used Tang dynasty decoration pattern that widely used in fabric, interior decoration and architecture. He thinks this pattern is beautiful and valuable.
I also attempt to use Chinese traditional patterns into my work -- use contemporary form and technique to expression these traditional Chinese culture.

Lucky Clouds Bangle 2

I inlayed the silver plate into a side of bangle, also embeded the silver wire into the surface as well. I attemped to making lucy clouds pattern on my bangle.

Display

Last year, I put my work photos into perspex board to display my design development process, as well as connected bamboo sticks together as my display decoration, stick on the surface of the exhibition pillar.

In this year end exhibition, I will keeping my last year style, make my own special stand and decorations that all linking with my work.

Lucky Clouds Bangle 1

During the period that I made this bangle, I redesigned my work-- chopped two pieces of wood from bangle, added the two silver plates.

Lucky Clouds Bangle

I will inlay the silver plate into the wood bangle.

This is the final design pattern on the bangle.

This is a kind of idea I design the bangle, the materal I decide use wood and silver.

Pau rosa wood (Mozambique rose wood)

Pau rosa wood

Zebrano

I attempt to use lucky clouds pattern tracing on my bangle, but I'm not use all the pattern, I just adopted some of interesting parts and added own design put into bangle. This piece of jewelry contained cultural heritage inside but it has made Today.