Lin Cheung is inspired by the social and personal issues that shape our lives: the objects we own, cherish and wear, and our relationships with them. She maintains that jewellery must be imbued with our past and present experiences to fully define it beyond a mere decorative object. Public collections featuring her work include Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Contemporary Art Society, London; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Laura Potter sees personal possessions as integral to the way an individual constructs an identity. She considers jewellery items to be extremely valuable, not only in material and aesthetic terms but because they are key artefacts through which we establish a sense of self. Commissions have included work for the Florence Nightingale Museum and Potter has exhibited internationally in the UK and Europe.
Based in Amsterdam, Ted Noten is a designer whose work explores the concepts of jewellery. Having trained as a jeweller at Maastricht and at the prestigious Gerrit Rietveld Academy (although he has also worked as a bricklayer and a psychiatric nurse), Noten’s work does not show great interest in traditional metalsmithing techniques. Rather he marshals a diverse range of materials, whatever is most appropriate for the ideas that he is working with.
