Kezhen Wang

Kezhen Wang born 1976 in China, is educated in Art and Design at the Nanjing Institute of Arts, Nanjing, China and in Jewellery, silversmithing and related product design at the Birmingham School of Jewellery, UK. The artist and curator is Head of the Metal Crafts department at the Nanjing college of Art. Currently he is a PhD candidate at the University of Lincoln, UK. In his jewellery practice he is lightheartedly combining traditional goldsmithing techniques and concepts with new tecnologies filling them with content that relates to questions of being human and the fact that jewellery as a human expression accompanied us since ancient times.