Nan Nan Liu (Chinese 1982-)
Oyster box, 2018
£2,750
Auction: 14 November 2019 from 13:00 GMT
Description
Hallmarked for London 2018, silver
Dimensions
10.5cm across (4.1in across), 228 grams
Footnote
Nan Nan Liu gained an MA in 2010 from the Royal College of Art, having previously won the Gold Prize Podolsky Award at the Goldsmiths’ Craftmanship and Design Awards in 2009. She was joint winner of The Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers Award and Silver Award in Smallworkers and Modelmakers, both for the Goldsmiths’ Craftmanship and Design Awards 2015. Liu’s work is held in the collections of the V&A Museum and Goldmiths’ Company.
Her work is principally inspired by nature, particularly where repetitive patterns and shapes are found, notably the forms that water can take and the emotional response it can evoke. Building up single strands of silver, she allows her pieces to form a life of their own, like water.