Tingyan Luo
TingYan Luo is a London-based jewellery artist and graduate of Central Saint Martins. Her work resists fixed form, drawing from material intuition and inherited cultural undercurrents. Through slow, tactile processes using recycled media, she rethinks ornamentation as a site of uncertainty, memory, and personal epistemology beyond formal training.
Glassborn emerges through an instinctive, non-linear process of material listening and cultural excavation. Working with recycled glass and silver—materials once deemed disposable—I allow forms to arise not through premeditated control, but through fracture, repetition, and embodied memory.
This body of work resists traditional notions of perfection, instead embracing fragility, unpredictability, and incomplete knowledge as aesthetic tools. While rooted in the legacy of Chinese jade, Glassborn does not reproduce historical motifs; rather, it reimagines their symbolic weight through intuitive acts of casting, melting, and threading—gestures that speak of ritual without replicating its form.
These pieces were not designed, but uncovered. Each bears the trace of uncertainty: decisions made by feel, not formula. In doing so, the collection subverts material hierarchies—glass is not imitation, but intention. Through the experimental integration of filigree with molten glass, Glassborn becomes a meditation on impermanence and the quiet force of unlearning.
This work responds to the exhibition’s core provocation: that knowledge may unfold not through instruction, but through gesture, touch, and refusal. It proposes that value lies not in mastery, but in the courage to make without precedent. These are objects shaped by doubt, memory, and material sensitivity—where knowing begins in the hand.
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