RAY ZHENG
Cluster Contemporary Jewellery Exhibitor 2022
A Bore of Ring | Object casting
Ray Zheng is a jewellery maker and researcher born in 1997 in Urumqi, China. She gained her BA in Jewellery Design at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology and her MFA in Fashions & Embodiment at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2021. She understands jewellery as a comprehensive formulation of body/individual expression that questions values, needs, obsessions and survival. She gravitates towards methods such as documenting and performance in order to provoke conversations in social-politics and traditions.
A Bore of Ring
The artist’s main focus is exploring the vast potential of contemporary objects; how they function and interact with the body in different social disciplines. For her, jewellery is the best form of this manifestation. She is trying methods to broaden the variety of her output which not only can be worn as jewels but also adornments or artefacts with concepts of interplay, which aim to link the maker and the wearer.
A Bore of Ring
Zheng’s practice starts with collecting, owning and documenting objects, which over time accumulates into a complex system of materials, behaviours and narratives intermingled with social and cultural context. These elements are essential for the maker to create meaning behind her jewellery and provoke conversations about material culture.
A Bore of Ring