Duoduo Lin, Glasgow School of Art. New Talents Award Nominee 2025
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Published: 23.12.2025
The 11th edition of the New Talent Award 2025 by Klimt02 aims to recognize the work of graduate students in our field by supporting their careers in the professional world. Nominated by our school members, one of the selected graduates will win the New Talents Award.
Repetition functions as the core of my methodology and design language.
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Name of graduation student: Duoduo Lin.
Name of guiding teacher: Silvia Weidenbach, Michael Pell, Anna Gordon, Andrew Lamb and Marianne Anderson.
Nominated by Glasgow School of Art.
The statement of the artist:
My degree project, Echoed Emotions, investigates the repetitive nature of emotional experience and how emotions continually enter and exit our lives with subtle variation. Rather than approaching emotions as singular or dramatic moments, my practice focuses on their cyclical rhythm—the way familiar emotional states quietly return, intensify, fade, and resurface over time.
Repetition functions as the core of my methodology and design language. It is not used as a visual strategy alone, but as a state of deep contemplation and analytical thinking. Through repeated making, I distance myself from emotional immediacy and adopt an observational position, examining how individuals repeatedly move into and out of emotional states. In practice, this takes the form of recurring elements that are duplicated and reworked through varied visual treatments. By maintaining structural consistency while allowing subtle changes, repetition becomes a way to articulate emotional rhythm rather than emotional narrative.
My working process is analytical in nature. I combine first-person and third-person perspectives to study emotional behaviour. The first-person perspective allows me to sense instinctive bodily and psychological reactions as emotions arise. The third-person perspective enables me to observe these reactions from a distance, focusing on external manifestation rather than personal storytelling. This dual perspective informs the restrained and measured quality of the work, avoiding overt autobiography while remaining rooted in lived emotional experience.
Material experimentation plays a central role in translating emotion into physical form. Working primarily with silver, I integrate diverse materials through repeated testing to explore how emotional resonance can be embedded within structure and tactility. Materials are selected for their capacity to echo specific emotional conditions rather than symbolic representation. Through the integration of silversmithing techniques with varied materials, the jewellery develops a sense of vitality, allowing emotional intensity and rhythm to be perceived through form, weight, and movement.
The project consists of five interconnected groups of works, each responding to a distinct emotional state. These groups do not function as isolated series but as variations within a single emotional system. Jewellery is positioned as an expressive agent—an intermediary that carries, structures, and reflects emotional rhythm. Strong visual structures generated through repetition allow emotions to be experienced as patterns rather than isolated feelings.
Interaction occurs primarily through wearing. Through bodily contact and repeated engagement over time, the wearer becomes aware of emotional cycles within themselves. The works are not intended as endpoints but as ongoing companions, inviting reflection, recognition, and acceptance of emotional fluctuation. By foregrounding repetition and restraint, Echoed Emotions positions contemporary jewellery as a quiet yet powerful medium for observing human psychology and emotional continuity.
Contact:
Mail: d.lin@gsa.ac.uk
Instagram: @claire.ldd
Find out more about the courses at Glasgow School of Art.
Name of guiding teacher: Silvia Weidenbach, Michael Pell, Anna Gordon, Andrew Lamb and Marianne Anderson.
Nominated by Glasgow School of Art.
The statement of the artist:
My degree project, Echoed Emotions, investigates the repetitive nature of emotional experience and how emotions continually enter and exit our lives with subtle variation. Rather than approaching emotions as singular or dramatic moments, my practice focuses on their cyclical rhythm—the way familiar emotional states quietly return, intensify, fade, and resurface over time.
Repetition functions as the core of my methodology and design language. It is not used as a visual strategy alone, but as a state of deep contemplation and analytical thinking. Through repeated making, I distance myself from emotional immediacy and adopt an observational position, examining how individuals repeatedly move into and out of emotional states. In practice, this takes the form of recurring elements that are duplicated and reworked through varied visual treatments. By maintaining structural consistency while allowing subtle changes, repetition becomes a way to articulate emotional rhythm rather than emotional narrative.
My working process is analytical in nature. I combine first-person and third-person perspectives to study emotional behaviour. The first-person perspective allows me to sense instinctive bodily and psychological reactions as emotions arise. The third-person perspective enables me to observe these reactions from a distance, focusing on external manifestation rather than personal storytelling. This dual perspective informs the restrained and measured quality of the work, avoiding overt autobiography while remaining rooted in lived emotional experience.
Material experimentation plays a central role in translating emotion into physical form. Working primarily with silver, I integrate diverse materials through repeated testing to explore how emotional resonance can be embedded within structure and tactility. Materials are selected for their capacity to echo specific emotional conditions rather than symbolic representation. Through the integration of silversmithing techniques with varied materials, the jewellery develops a sense of vitality, allowing emotional intensity and rhythm to be perceived through form, weight, and movement.
The project consists of five interconnected groups of works, each responding to a distinct emotional state. These groups do not function as isolated series but as variations within a single emotional system. Jewellery is positioned as an expressive agent—an intermediary that carries, structures, and reflects emotional rhythm. Strong visual structures generated through repetition allow emotions to be experienced as patterns rather than isolated feelings.
Interaction occurs primarily through wearing. Through bodily contact and repeated engagement over time, the wearer becomes aware of emotional cycles within themselves. The works are not intended as endpoints but as ongoing companions, inviting reflection, recognition, and acceptance of emotional fluctuation. By foregrounding repetition and restraint, Echoed Emotions positions contemporary jewellery as a quiet yet powerful medium for observing human psychology and emotional continuity.
Contact:
Mail: d.lin@gsa.ac.uk
Instagram: @claire.ldd
Find out more about the courses at Glasgow School of Art.
Necklace: Reflective, 2025
Cherry blossom petals, gourds, sterling silver, leather
30 x 29 x 4 cm
Photo by: Duoduo Lin
From series: Echoed Emotions – Reflective
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Estimated price: 2930 €
SOLD
Necklace: Reflective, 2025
Fermented persimmon dye, gourds, sterling silver, leather
30 x 30 x 3.5 cm
Photo by: Duoduo Lin
From series: Echoed Emotions – Reflective
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Estimated price: 2820 €
SOLD
Necklace: Reflective, 2025
Cricket droppings, gourds，sterling silver, leather
28 x 25 x 5.5 cm
Photo by: Duoduo Lin
From series: Echoed Emotions – Reflective
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Estimated price: 3525 €
Necklace: Tense, 2025
Sterling silver, recycled phone camera, rubber
11.5 x 11.5 x 4 cm
Photo by: Duoduo Lin
From series: Echoed Emotions – Tense
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Estimated price: 2655 €
Brooch: Tense, 2025
Sterling silver, recycled phone camera, steel
9 x 6.5 x 2 cm
Photo by: Shannon Tofts
From series: Echoed Emotions – Tense
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Estimated price: 1625 €
Necklace: Disappointment, 2025
Sterling silver, paper
18 x 14 x 4 cm
Photo by: Duoduo Lin
From series: Echoed Emotions – Disappointment
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Estimated price: 3033 €
Brooch: Disappointment, 2025
Sterling silver, paper, steel, bearing
9 x 5 x 0.8 cm
Photo by: Duoduo Lin
From series: Echoed Emotions – Disappointment
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Estimated price: 1010 €
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