Chien-Wei Chang
Works available
Huge Bamboo Vessel
2008
Gilding metal (oxidized)
46 × 17.5 × 48 cm
Large Serving Bowl
2007
Silver, gilding metal (colour treated)
85 × 34 × 12.5cm / 33 1/2 × 13 1/6 × 4 3/4
Huge Ladle
2005
Gilding metal (silver plated) and Padauk wood
165 × 30 x 20cm / 65 × 12 × 7 1/8 ins
Bamboo Ladle 1
2010
Gilding metal, bamboo
15 × 60 x 25cm / 6 × 23 2/3 × 9 3/4 ins
Bamboo Ladle 2
2010
Gilding metal, bamboo
15 × 50 x 25cm / 6 × 19 × 9 3/4 ins
One After Another
2008
Silver, brass, Ebony
138 × 15 × 34cm / 54 1/4 × 6 x 13 1/2 ins
Biography
Chien-Wei Chang makes vessels, ladles and sculptural objects from silver and other metals, his work plays with scale and material. He will be showing a selection of these in the exhibition. In 2004 he won the British Jewellers' Association Merit Award and completed his City & Guilds degree in Silversmithing. Chien Wei Chang was born in 1971 in Taiwan and worked in the commercial jewellery industry for Tiffany's International, since 2000 he has practised Silversmithing in the UK.