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Jeweller Artist

 

Get in touch with me at:   info@lili-mj.com

 

I live in London

Artist Statement

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My practice is driven by questioning and playing with power that exists within objectification. I am interested in the dominance that can result from excessive submissiveness. I enjoy opposites, contradictions and playful experiments on more serious underlying concepts and topics.

I am interested in the value of labour, how it is measured and changeable, always in flux. I find the way the meaning or value of an object can disappear or alter depending on who is viewing it compelling, and use my practice to experiment with this.

I work between performance art and jewellery, poking at the meaning of being ‘correct’ in our behaviour and interactions. I tend to use humour and subversion to work through my ideas, and am drawn to where humour can become awkward and tension can be felt.

Education

 

2021 - 2023                   MA Jewellery and Metal, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2012 - 2015                   BA Hons Jewellery Design, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

2011 - 2012                   Foundation Degree in Art and Design, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

Exhibitions, Shows and Performances

2023 (upcoming)                RCA Degree Show, Truman Brewery, London

2023                              JAMCabaret, Munich Jewellery Week Hub, Munich 

2022                              After acting like a doormat for many years, I will become a doormat, Hill Station Community Cafe, London 

2022                              Precious Materials, Goldsmiths Fair, Goldsmiths Hall, London

2022                              Delivision: Three Video Projects by Lili Murphy-Johnson, Theatre Deli, Broadgate Circle, London

2022                              Resit and Final Resit, Trinity Laban Studio Theatre, London

2022                              CAUTION: WORK IN PROGRESS, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London

2022                              W.I.P, Royal College of Art, Online

2021                              Tipped, Trinity Laban, London

2020                              Postcards 19, Trinity Laban, Online

2019                              Weighting, Trinity Laban Studio Theatre, London

2018                              The Jewellery Pop-Up, Shoreditch, London

2017                              Decorating Dissidence, Mile End Art Pavilion, London

2016                              Future Late, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London

2015                              Central Saint Martins Degree Show, London

2014                              Salvage, Central Saint Martins, London

2013                              Pearl Education Day, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

2013                              Entrance to Pearls exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

2012                              Central Saint Martins Foundation Degree Show, London

 

Awards

 

2021                              The Griffin Scholarship, to study at the RCA

 

Professional Experience

2023                              Teaching Placement, Glasgow School of Art

2021 - 2022                   Self Employed Freelance Jeweller

2019 - 2022                   Commissioned Works Collaborator, Performance Platform, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

2021                              Jeweller, Castro Smith, London

2020 - 2021                   Workshop Manager, The Great Frog, London

2018 - 2020                   Workshop Supervisor, The Great Frog, London

2016 - 2020                   Jeweller, The Great Frog, London

2015 - 2016                   Workshop Intern, Shaun Leane, London

2015                              Studio Intern, Lily Kamper, London

Publications

 

2017                              Narrative Jewellery: Tales from the Toolbox by Mark Fenn, p.192

Press

 

2020                              Tampax

2019                              She. Magazine, p.52

2018                              She. Magazine, p.16-17

2018                              BenchPeg

2018                              Playboy

2017                              Harpers Bazaar

2017                              Separee Magazine, cover and p.80-85

2016                              Cosmopolitan

2016                              Glamour, p.62-66

2016                              Huffington Post

2016                              Teen Vogue

2016                              The Telegraph

2016                              The Daily Mail

2015                              Paper Magazine

2015                              Art Sheep

2015                              Buzzfeed

2015                              Vice

2013                              Professional Jeweller

2013                              The Guardian Weekend Magazine, p.63

2013                              The Financial Times, How To Spend It

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