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Cindy Xinyi Wu

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I am a jewellery designer with a robust background in Visual Arts. My proficiency lies in developing unique conceptual jewellery designs that blend traditional metalsmithing with digital fabrication, utilizing both conventional and innovative materials. Through internships with diverse jewellery brands and active engagement in Fashion Weeks, I have honed my design and production skills and gained insightful knowledge of the operational aspects of jewellery business and the global market.
I am a jewellery designer with a robust background in Visual Arts. My proficiency lies in developing...

Expressing her long-standing passion for bread-making, Cindy’s collection “Rising” explores the constantly changing form of homemade bread, which she has dehydrated. The shaping of the metal bands is inspired by the actions of kneading, stretching and folding which occur throughout the bread-making process. Exploring the movement of its rising, she allows the bread to take its own form around the metal. She transforms bread into beautiful, wearable and fluctuating jewellery. Her passion and connection offer a personal perspective and a new take on craftsmanship.

Interpretative text by Caroline Ruz, BA (Hons) Culture, Criticism and Curation

Final work

  • Twisted double ring structure silver earring with bread baked and expanded inside.
  • The metal part is a spiral structure metal frame with stretching texture. The whole-wheat dough was inserted and baked inside.
  • A blackened silver structure with textured part symbolizing the stretching dough, a piece of bread is baked inside the ring and set securely within it
  • A bracelet made from a brass frame combined with bread. The top features a brass ring that wraps around the bread structure, functioning as a clasp.
  • A brass ring inspired by cooling rack. The metal frame constructs a 3d geometric structure and there is a bread trapped inside.
  • A necklace that the bottom features a ring structure that can be opened, allowing the wearer to remove the dough, bake a new bread, and replace it.
  • A patinated brass necklace made of doughs composed of gradient-colored flour.
  • A brooch composed of a brass base with a textured, patinated silver part, with dough expanding into irregular shapes within their gaps.
  • A spiral structured metal framework with bread expanded into organic form inside it.
  • A silver brooch composed of a round flat base and a texture part representing stretching dough, a rye bread expanded in their gap.
  • Textured silver strips form a rectangular frame and the wholewheat bread grows inside the frame.
  • A large wire necklace with a pendant that made of brass and patinated silver, a white dough expanded inside the gap in the metal structure.

Research and process

  • The process of making dough including stretching, folding, and kneading. And a picture of material samples.
  • Pictures of a dough inserted in the metal framework gradually expanded.

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RISING

Expressing her long-standing passion for bread-making, Cindy’s collection “Rising” explores the constantly changing form of homemade bread, which she has dehydrated. The shaping of the metal bands is inspired by the actions of kneading, stretching and folding which occur throu...

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