Niza Huang

With its unique shape and texture, her works are unforgettable. She sets unique themes for her annual collections such as “Under Earth,” “Crush,” and “Illusion.” Especially the Crush Collection is unique from the process. Normally, jeweler creates a mold with clay or wax, but she used a thin aluminum sheet. Because the master piece was made of thin metal, it broke easily and took many of trial and error to perfect the mold. Her real origin comes from the experience of learning industrial design before she started learning jewelry design. Originally learned product design in Taiwan, Niza's BA graduated project was designing a motorcycle which was far off from jewelry. There, she learned the characteristics of materials and how to handle them. These product design basics make her open mind to unorthodox ideas of traditional jewelry designing.

You can feel the sense of mother earth texture from her work such as soil and rock. The sources of her inspirations are trips. In her last trip to New Zealand, its vast nature had a big effect on her collection “Under Earth.” The root of her style with nature goes back to her first collection. How about adding oil to jewelry? The piece she created with the idea of her collaborator was capturing petroleum inside of magnifying glass, which was beyond common sense. From this point, she continues to create workpieces with a theme of soil and nature.

It’s notable that many of Niza’s customers are creators. By seeing its exceptional figure and artistic concept, it is understandable that many designers and artists are fans of her work. Niza says that how much effort is putting into each piece is probably one of their evaluation measures.

She keeps creating new styles handling materials freely as if she were sculpturing and defying traditions and common sense. While she expresses her passion for creating art, she calls her pieces “wearable sculpture.”