Misun Won
About Misun Won
South Korea born jewellery designer and maker, Misun Won moved to the UK and enrolled on a MA programme at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2006. She has showed her jewellery at major UK and international craft shows including Goldsmiths’ Fair, Collect, Baltimore American Craft Show, and SOFA Chicago/New York.
Misun regularly exhibits her work at galleries in the UK and internationally. She has won awards including Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council award. She received Best New Design Award –Special Mention at Goldsmiths’ Fair in 2019.
She is a resident artist at Coburg House Art Studio in Edinburgh.
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Misun Won
Misun Won’s jewellery inspired from Korean traditional wrapping cloth ‘Jogakbo’ and its scientific interpretation with fractal geometry. She hand pierces out patterns from a single sheet of silver and gold, and bended to make its unique structure in order to celebrate the meaningful ritual of the patchwork making process. She mainly use silver, gold and Keumboo(24ct gold) and also colourful precious/semi-precious stones for highlighting her Korean influences to make modern contemporary jewellery. She specialices in ancient Korean gilding technique called ‘Keumboo(24ct gold)’ to emphasis the dynamic rhythmical structures in her jewellery.
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All Goldsmiths’ Fair exhibitors welcome commissions. Don’t hesitate to contact this maker and start a conversation about commissioning a piece, unique to you. Examples of commissioning include transforming or combining old jewellery into new pieces, incorporating stones into new settings, or simply working together to create a bespoke piece in the style of this maker.
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