Yangfan Luo

Yangfan Luo is a young jewellery artist. She is also very interested in miniature models. Her jewellery pieces are delicate and elegant, often derived from natural forms, but with an aesthetic redesign of these creatures. When creating miniatures, she wants not only to replicate realistic scenes, but also to tell new stories and convey atmospheres and emotions through miniatures. 

Awards:

2023 Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council Awards

--- 3D Craft Junior Modellers: Silver Award

--- 3D Design Ready to Wear Jewellery: Bronze Award

--- Podolsky Award: Contender

2023 Craft Council of British Columbia: The Earring Show. Shortlisted

We are in an era of globalisation, in which many companies’factories are located in developing countries, providing cheap goods to the world. However, in order to keep prices low, factories tend to exploit workers to the maximum extent possible: this includes unsanitary working conditions, excessive working hours, and unequal work contracts. This situation leads to serious physical and mental health problems for groups of workers in developing countries. For example, in 2014, Lizhi Xu, a worker and poet, leapt from the roof of a factory in China. Before his death, a total of 20 young people had chosen to end their lives by committing suicide in this factory.

Through this series of work, Yangfan hopes to show the psychological state of factory workers in developing countries, how they live and what kind of emotions they experience. She hopes that more ordinary people will thus be aware of the sacrifice and cost associated with globalisation through her work.