SI CHENG SHUAI
SI CHENG SHUAI SIRI
Jewellery Artist / Textile Artist
Si Cheng Shuai (Siri) is a Chinese based artist who works mainly in contemporary jewellery art and textile art. Her works were exhibited in Rome, China, Australia. She completed jewellery design in Raffles Design in Singapore, Bachelor of arts in fashion at Coventry University. At now she is currently undertaking a Masters by coursework at RMIT. Her practices incorporate of jewellery, object and textile to the materialization of intimacy and security explore the emotions and memories of the materials
Artist statement
In my art practice, I take inspiration from handmade textile materials and investigate the unique tactile and textural qualities. I am fascinated by handmade textiles, mostly because of the soft tactile and unique texture. I feel calm and relaxed when I touch that. There is an invisible connection between textiles and us. From birth, we have a special connection to fabric clothing, bedding and soft toys. Textiles have been with us in every corner of our lives, always present. Beyond this physical relationship between the body and textiles, is an invisible connection that builds on memory and touch.
The textiles are referred to as a second skin, fitting into the body and giving an invisible warmth, familiarity and protection. Textiles can create a calm and relaxed feeling also with the process of creating textile artworks as a therapy to relieve stress and anxiety through those repeated sewing actions to get emotions, repair and liberation.