设计师简介
I am a Japanese artist who mainly makes jewellery works.
My professional career started with a big Japanese pearl jewellery company.
Then I established my own brand, had a studio showroom in the centre of Tokyo, and started to design, produce and sell mainly high-end jewellery.
On the other hand, I learned Japanese traditional metal craft techniques and made works. In addition, I began researching sword decoration by touching its history. That gave me the opportunity to study the history of art in the world and to think deeply about Japanese arts and crafts.
Through this research, I understand that this also leads to the history of art in the world, and I entered the Royal College of Art in 2017 to create works as an artist that is not limited to jewellery.
I have now mastered various expressions such as video, photos, Japanese calligraphy, painting, installation, etc., and reflected them in my work.
I would like to have an opportunity to discover a new approach during the process of making, rather than making the pieces to a previously executed design.
And I would like to use great skills, processes, and techniques and act on my intuition (or inner vision) what I want to convey to others.
我是一名日本艺术家，主要制作首饰作品。
我的职业生涯始于一家大型日本珍珠珠宝公司。
然后我建立了自己的品牌，在东京市中心有一个工作室陈列室，开始设计、生产和销售主要是高端珠宝。
另一方面，我学习了日本传统的金属工艺技术并制作了作品。此外，我开始通过接触剑饰的历史来研究它。这让我有机会学习世界艺术史，深入思考日本的艺术和工艺。
通过这次研究，我了解到这也引出了世界艺术史，我于2017年进入皇家艺术学院，以艺术家的身份创作作品，不仅仅局限于珠宝首饰。
现在我已经掌握了视频、照片、日本书法、绘画、装置等各种表达方式，并将其体现在我的作品中。
我希望在制作的过程中有机会发现新的方法，而不是按照之前执行的设计来制作。
我想要使用伟大的技能、过程和技巧，并按照我的直觉(或内心的愿景)去行动，把我想要传达给别人的东西付诸行动。
作品和设计说明
Title: IROGANE Ring
IROGANE Ring is a painting an artist Taizen Wada draws with metal. Each metal in a frame is made by hand, which will make everyone fascinated. This technique is an advanced metal art technique that has been sticking since Wada started making jewellery. If it used only this technique, it would be considered to be ordinary traditional craftworks. However, Wada produces works with a totally different approach by using the jewellery production skill it has developed. This is strong, beautiful and elegant work with excellent union of Japan’s ancient and modern metal, refined and flowing details of a ring, and effective arrangement of the diamonds, which will give viewers thrill. It is the homage to the traditional technique transmitted from ancestors and the artist’s challenge to the new area where the craft is transformed into jewellery.
Rings/ silver, shakudo, mokume, black diamond, etc..
Title: KOTONOHA Brooch
In recent years I try to make a work with words and letter motifs using metal. I think a letter is the ultimate form of the physical expression reflecting one’s mind. I am interested in the design of the letter, which developed as a tool with the words that represent people’s feelings, and metal expression their presence. I have been using any possible technique in order to create jewellery with a letter for information and an emotional display.
In the Japanese language, its call “KOTONOHA” “KOTO” means “say” and “HA” means “leaves of the tree”
The Japanese kana (letters) and alphabet belong to a genre of the phonogram. However, these two letters developed a very different way. Letter shapes are architectural and have a strong constant regularity. In contrast, kana letters play like the flow of water lengthwise.
Small details and matte texture is only possible with laser printing.
However, the result of hand engraving cannot achieve by laser printing. These are my just experiment.
Alphabet and Japanese kana letters fuse in a contrasting element in the one world. This contrast of alphabet and kana letters, also between hand engraving and laser printing is what I would like to express in my work.
Brooch / german silver, laser engraving, Japanese hand engraving
Art Jewellery Group _3
Title: The Infinity Black
I have been practicing Japanese metalsmithing techniques for over 20years. During my MA at the RCA, I have seen the ambiguity of the physical body and seen how it decays to the infinity. A heart that radiates infinite radiance, glass that is always fragile, iron with quietly decaying character. I believe material and the inherent story of its life should inform how techniques are applied and for what reason. ‘The Infinity Black’, is based on several pieces of rusty iron I found at the Thames riverside in London. These pieces are hard to change after being aged by time. I have used Japanese techniques to induce colour to the rust. In Japan, black means infinity, and to me, the infinity swallows iron, birthing out of nothing and to return to nothing. I wish to present the moment of disappearing, that is the beauty of infinity black.
Body Jewellery/ iron, Swarovski, magnet
