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His exuberant wearable objects are unique, and stunning from both a visual and a technical perspective. In 1995 he was joint winner of the inaugural Jerwood Applied Arts Prize for Jewellery, praised for the ‘lasting significance and daring brilliance’ of his jewellery. \n\r\nHis early jewellery incorporated recycled materials and found objects. Later he used disposable plastics from everyday life. His work charts a fantastical world inspired by nature and the surreal, its vivid and gleaming colours a combination of individually carved or turned acrylic elements and polyester resin, applied in layers like a precious lacquer and polished to a seamless whole.\n\r\nThis brooch, left in its early stages, deconstructs the glossy multi-coloured surfaces of Chang’s jewellery and reveals the exacting and time-consuming nature of his work. It shows a carved wooden core onto which he has started to apply individually shaped acrylic elements, with the next step suggested by his pencil marking. Chang worked with waste acrylic offcuts and enjoyed the irony of making an artistic statement and an object meant to last, from materials meant to be thrown away.","physicalDescription":"A pointed oval wooden core, one end of which is encased by white acrylic, and beyond which twists a tapering red acrylic tail. A chevron drawn on the wood in pencil indicates how the design might have progressed. The reverse is of black acrylic with a steel pin which follows the line of the piece. 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