YUSI WANG

Cluster Contemporary Jewellery
”AMALGAM”

Yusi Wang (b. 2000, Yangquan, China) is a contemporary jewellery artist based in Sheffield, UK, working across jewellery, graphic design, and photography. Her practice explores memory, touch, and materiality through wearable forms that transform emotionally resonant experiences into tangible objects.

Working with metal, textiles, cyanotype fabric, thread, and found materials, Wang is particularly interested in traces left by human presence. She often incorporates discarded or overlooked materials, viewing them as carriers of silent histories and emotional residue. Through processes of repetition, reconstruction, and transformation, she reveals the hidden narratives embedded within everyday objects.

Wang’s work investigates the relationship between permanence and fragility, exploring how memories are preserved, altered, and reimagined over time. By combining tactile materials with contemporary jewellery practices, she creates pieces that invite intimate engagement and sensory reflection. Her approach is guided by a philosophy of humility, embracing vulnerability, experimentation, and openness to unexpected outcomes. Through jewellery, Wang seeks to create a visual and tactile language that connects personal memory with shared human experience.

Yusi Wang’s practice explores memories that resist language—fleeting sensations, emotional traces, and experiences that remain embedded in the body long after they have passed. Through contemporary jewellery, she investigates how these intangible experiences can be translated into tangible forms.

Working with metal, textiles, cyanotype fabric, thread, and found materials, Wang often incorporates objects that have been discarded, overlooked, or separated from their original function. She is drawn to the marks left by touch, wear, and time, viewing materials as carriers of personal and collective histories. Within her making process, cutting, wrapping, stitching, and rebuilding become acts of remembrance. Rather than treating memory as something fixed, she approaches it as a dynamic process—constantly shifting, fragmenting, and reforming.

The tension between permanence and fragility lies at the core of her work. Metal provides structure and emotional weight, while textiles evoke softness, vulnerability, and the warmth of human presence. Through the interaction of these materials, Wang creates wearable objects that invite both visual and tactile engagement. Her jewellery functions as a space where personal memory becomes visible, transforming intimate experiences into shared encounters and fostering connections between individual emotion and collective human experience.