Art Meets Nature

Shirley Lam’s ring combines the typically Chinese organic item of a lotus seed pod with scavenged pieces of Hong Kong trash.

The ring is one jewelry item in a set of three alongside another ring and a necklace with the title_Pick up lines and things_. In all three works organic shapes embrace and seemingly blend into man-made ones, blurring boundaries between the artificial and the natural.

Shirley Lam was trained at Hong Kong Baptist University’s Academy of Visual Arts and received a special mention at the Academy’s Tuna Prize of 2012.See: Tuna Prize She continued to create independently after graduating alongside her work as a kindergarten educator.

If you are interested in a German artist based in Finland who similarly blends ‘art’ and ‘nature’ in her works and even developed a special technique to recycle plastic bags into jewelry items, please click here.