Yaning Liu
About
Email: 10038852@network.rca.ac.uk
yaning2208@outlook.com
Instagram: @yaningjewellery
Yaning Liu is an artist, jeweller, and object remaker. He was born in China in 2001 and now studies and lives in Beijing and London. He holds a BA in Arts and Crafts from Beijing Union University, where he focused on the innovation and practice of intangible cultural heritage crafts. Currently, he continues his studies and practice at the Royal College of Art.
Yaning’s journey in jewellery and object design explores the unstable relationships between objects, individuals, and communities. He believes this instability arises because the definitions of human-object relationships and material perceptions are heavily influenced by the current social context, personal experiences, and community environment, which continuously evolve and affect one another.
Yaning’s recent research and interests centre on reconstructing everyday objects' identity, emotionality, and functionality, deeply integrating material culture studies. His practice examines human behaviour and social environments from the perspective of objects, endowing them with human-like perception and expressive abilities. He aims to build a material-based space through design and remaking, fostering an equitable dialogue between the material world and communities.