Veronica Cheann

Metall

Nesoddtangen

www.cheann.com

veronica.cheann@gmail.com

Veronica Cheann

Veronica has a bachelor degree of material based art in Khio from 2019. Her medium is art jewelry and installation. She is interested in everydays organic materials, and their implication of ephemerality and the concept of constant transformation of organic matter.

Rice, flour & charcoal are often used, & themes like personal identity and cultural experiences are explored through the materials. In her current works, Veronica started to play with the ideas of individualism, deep time, & free will in her theme.

Veronica grew up in Hong Kong. She studied and worked in the United States before settling down in Norway.

There is always a back door

2022

‘There is always a back door’ is a piece of work which depicts insects as the protagonist of a situation. Whether our protagonist is resisting or welcoming the offer of an alternative path is up to the viewer to decide. The insect in this work can also be used as earring or brosje.

Fragments from the primitive hut

2021

`Fragments from the primitive hut´, is a series of 3 brooches made from carving grill charcoal. The work was inspired by the concept of ´Primitive hut´ in architecture theory that questions the highly decorative and decadent Rococo style dominating the time when it was written, and called to return to the simple and essential.

A daughter married away is like cast out water

2019

'A daughter married away is like casted out water', is inspired by an old Chinese saying. The work used rice as the main jewelry material to express the vulnerability of human relationships in some old social structure.