Jiangling Wang

Bio

Jiangling Wang is a contemporary jewellery practitioner based in Lewes, East Sussex, UK. She graduated from MA Jewellery Design at Central Saint Martins. Her practice begins with the CANG series, drawing on textile craftsmanship through hand-twisted silver wire, combined with weaving and structural reconstruction to explore the relationship between tools, materials, and structural language. Her work emphasises self-made tools as “co-creators” within the making process, engaging with embodied knowledge, rhythm, and material response in the formation of form. Her work has been recognised with awards including Preziosa Young 2026 and the Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council Silver Award (Wire Innovation).

Statement

My practice focuses on the relationship between tools, materials, and the maker. I am often inspired by textile techniques, exploring how different processes shape the behaviour of materials and how these can be translated into possibilities within jewellery structures.
During making, I use self-made tools combined with metal weaving and twisting processes, allowing the material to shift through different operations. These approaches bring me closer to a state somewhere between fibre and metal, and they also help me continuously rethink the relationship between material and form.
My research is centred on the relationship between tool, material, body, and rhythm, with a focus on tactile experience in making, such as pressure, rhythm, and the material’s response to the hand.
The ongoing CANG series develops from this process. I twist, weave, and reconstruct silver wire by hand, while allowing self-made tools to take part in the making. These tools introduce a degree of unpredictability, which in turn influences the formation of structure.
For me, making is a continuous practice closely connected to everyday experience. I hope to continue developing this approach through a slower and more open way of working.

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