Chuhan Xiao
Jewellery & Metal MA
Royal College of Art
Specialisms: Jewelry
Location: London, United Kingdom
Chuhan Xiao
First Name: Chuhan
Last Name: Xiao
Specialisms: Jewelry
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program Title: Jewellery & Metal MA
About
Chuhan Xiao is a jewellery designer and silversmith, following her graduation from the BA Jewllery Design programme at Central Saint Martins, and later completed her MA in Jewellery & Metal at the Royal College of Art. Chuhan currently lives and works in London.
Chuhan’s practice challenges the conventional boundaries of jewellery, shifting it from ornament to intimate sculpture. Exploring self-identity and memory, her work investigates how the body becomes a site of emotional resonance and personal narrative. Through pieces, she wishes to invite the wearers to imprint their own narratives and emotions onto them. Chuhan is drawn to the traces we leave behind—how touch, time, and memory linger in form. In this way, jewellery becomes not just something wearable, but something that remembers.
Chuhan’s Collection Echoes in the Blur examines the shifting nature of memory through a series of wearable jewellery and vessels. Using techniques such as knot casting, beading, crocheting, and layering, the project explores how memories are held, distorted, and reassembled over time. Materials such as frosted quartz, mother of pearl, and laser engraved acrylic are chosen for their translucent, hazy qualities—mirroring the way memory fades or fragments. Chuhan frames the body as both vessel and memory site, where inner emotion takes external, physical shape. Through tactile contrasts of softness and rigidity, Echoes in the Blur becomes a meditation on what it means to remember, and how jewellery can hold what words often cannot.
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