Jin Ah Jo

Bio

Jin Ah Jo is a contemporary jewellery artist from Melbourne, Australia. She finished a Masters of Fine Art at Monash University, Melbourne in 2008 including a study at Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, Germany in 2006. For her making jewellery is all about creating wearable unpredicted forms reflecting her experience of immigrating from Korea to Australia and recently she introduced Buddhism to her practice. She has been participating in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia, England, China and the US.

Statement

I utilise materials often used for industrial or architectural purposes and create unexpected, reconstructed and deconstructed wearable forms that still retain their original characters and qualities. This transforms the steel, perforated mild steel, pipes and fittings of old watches into a wearable piece of contemporary jewellery that explores form, space and connection. 
 
Inspired by deconstructive architecture practitioners such as Frank Gehry who question architecture in a philosophical context, I try to get my work to question existing well-known forms by changing them into completely dissimilar structures.
I try to be intuitive when I am in the process of construction and at the same time I plan to ensure accuracy and balance.

2021 has been a meaningful year for my practice as I have completed Volume 2 of my blog writings which documented 100 days of my practice. It showcased how I apply Buddhism into my practice and told the story of the creation of a new body of work called “Pipe Way”. Written in English and Korean the blog is a permanent record of the stories, thoughts, and insights of my daily creation routine. It has established new ideas connecting past and present, my origin and immigration, and regenerated playfulness into my work. 

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