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ARTEXPRESS 2021 - Student interview - 01. Daryl Chan

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DARYL CHAN: My name is Daryl Chan, and I studied visual arts at St. Mary's Cathedral College. So my love of jewellery, I've always loved jewellery, and I made like a whole collection of necklaces. So six of them, and my love of jewellery, which has started from a very young age, I've always been into the hip hop culture and of fashion of wearing jewellery and everything.

And I think that is just a very nice way to accessorise yourself in terms of fashion and your outfits. And I always had this idea of like, oh, I want to create something jewellery based. So I brainstormed ideas and what kind of jewellery I could make. A whole collection, maybe I do some rings, some necklaces. But my final idea was I would just create a whole collection of six different necklace pieces.

My body of work is based around the ideas of the environment, that industrialisation has a big toll on the environment, and how we need a place an importance on our nature. So for inspiration for my body of work, I would look on Pinterest. I'd look online for different creations of jewellery pieces that artists have made. I'd go to art galleries, and I just be inspired by the way they make things. What their concept is and everything. So just researching online. A lot of images and Pinterest.

So when making my body of work, I had to think about many different ideas of how I can make small, little elements or create small, little pieces to put together into one whole piece. So it was many tools used like pliers, tweezers. I'd have to ply small pieces of metal to create a shape. And then I'd have to put that with another piece of metal or another small object.

So there's many different materials that were used, and materials I found all along the art room. The was many small scraps. Even just like sticks and stuff you pick off in the park on the floor. You can chop that up. You can make it into a small object, which you can incorporate into your necklace. Initially, when starting the body of work, I had many drawings designs sketched out in my artwork, and I would see what kind of designs I wanted.

But then as I gathered my materials, my designs would change based on what I have, and I'd have to adapt to my design, maybe have to change something up because some of the materials are different to what my design was implemented to be. So after my success in ARTEXPRESS, it has helped me discover that I do like design, and I will continue to pursue something in the design faculty as my career choice. So visual arts has now led me to study a Bachelor of Architecture and Environment at Sydney University where I can continue my artistry and my design.

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