Veronica Cheann
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Veronica Cheann (b. 1976, Hong Kong) works focusing on installations, art jewellery, objects and sculpture. Her material-based and concept-driven practice explores themes including spiritual spaces, parallel existences, acts of sacrifice and ritual. She investigates the spatial relationships between artworks and exhibition spaces, connecting material research with personal identity and cultural background. Cheann holds a bachelor's degree in material-based art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and has exhibited in Norway and internationally, including at Munich Jewellery Week, Galerie Marzee in the Netherlands, and the International Jewellery Art Exhibition in Beijing. Her works have been acquired by KODE in Bergen and the Municipality of Trondheim. She also has a background in landscape architecture and architecture.
2026
A Disquieting Landscape
A body of work inspired by the Metaphysical art movement - marked by the illogical juxtapositions, stillness, and disorienting spatial constructions; these perceptions are reinterpreted through jewell…
2025
Three Acts of Offering
'Three acts of offering' is about the act we perform to give gratitude to our loved one. Inspired by the experience of organizing her mother's funeral, Veronica has created her own personal offering …
2025
Rice flower garden offering
In Asia, food is often offered to ancestors and various deities; while in the west, flowers are brought. In this piece, rice is a material being used for personal identity, and flowers made from rice…
2025
Through the Lantern Gate
Inspired by fragments of memories in spiritual spaces the artist experienced, like the rolling of prayer wheels, or walls of windmills, a common sight in temples and graveyards; Cheann intended to inv…
2024
Skin Viewer
The Skin Viewer rings series view the body not just as object, but focuses on the void, the negative spaces around and between our fingers. It is also about focusing on what we already have. In the w…
2023
May you be in the right place at the right time
A site-spesific installation inspired by a phenomenon that took place during the 1800s and 1900s, a classic text book examples of Darwinism about the peppered-moths and how their natural camouflage af…
2022
There is always a back door
‘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 th…
2021
Fragments from the primitive hut
`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 highl…
2019
A daughter married away is like cast out water
'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 ol…
2018
Persona
2018