Dixin Zheng

About

Dixin Zheng (b.2001) is a contemporary artist and jewellery designer who concentrates on developing proficiency in various modern approaches and traditional silversmithing techniques, including laser welding, raising, chasing and repoussé. Her works not only have formal closeness to sculptures but also express the poetic of mundane life.

Dixin primarily focused on crafting jewellery pieces during her undergraduate studies at Central Saint Martins (UAL) from 2019 to 2022, and won the bronze award for 3D Design Conceptual Jewellery in the 2023 Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council Competition. She immersed herself in the fundamentals of silversmithing at RCA and was awarded the Behrens Foundation Bursary Scholarship and the Armourers and Brasiers Award.

Dixin’s project is breaking the border of traditional spoon, using spoon as her material and medium to express how people’s bodies perceive and explore their spaces. Inspired by Surrealism, she is interested in anthropomorphising the spoon. Dixin believes that spoon is not only ‘cross-boundary’ and ‘across-space’ but also an extension of people’s body and a bridge for people to connect with their world.

“People, as a spoon;

Our body perceives and travels through the inner and outer space, 

by gaze, by tactility;

and only time will remain in space.” 

Collection 1: Curved Realities – Spooning Into the Depth Within

Möbius Spoon [Spoon & Egg Race], The Consuming Spoon, The Interwoven Spoon

Collection 2: Whispers between Body and Space

The Coordinate Axis Spoon, The Paradox Spoon, The Extending Spoon, Another Spoon

Collection 3: Ripples of Movement

Swirling Spoons, The Bent Spoon, The Spilling Spoon