Joey Zhong
Storyteller and designer, Joey Zhong, reinterprets traditional jewellery artistry and technique with the bold simplicity of modern design. Joey is a jewellery artist with Chinese heritage. She grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to London in 2019 to study at Central Saint Martins, from which she graduated in 2024. She is based in both Sydney and London.
Her sensitive weaving of materials and gemstones derives from a fascination with objects made for holding and carrying; a metaphor for paths travelled. Her jewellery brings together influences of art, objects, personal narratives and the everyday. Her ideas are often abstracted and visualised through subtle subversions to stone setting and mechanisms within jewellery construction.
As a designer, her process is rooted in a love of drawing. Joey combines traditional and modern methods of design and communication through hand drawing, refined modelling and digital rendering using CAD, as well as traditional gouache painting. She works with consideration of every detail in creating jewels that tell a story.
Joey has had experience designing with Shaun Leane in London and at Louis Vuitton in Paris. She is currently participating in Spotlighting 2025, a programme organised and selected by the Goldsmiths’ Centre.
Joey is also currently stocked at Dover Street Market’s Jewellery Market Summer Exhibition in their London store and online from 3 July-4 August. You can view and purchase her work on the DSM E-Shop.
https://shop.doverstreetmarket.com/collections/jewellery-market
Education
BA (Hons) Jewellery Design, Central Saint Martins (2024)
Foundation Diploma in Arts and Design (Fashion Design), Central Saint Martins (2020)
Exhibitions
Dover Street Market, Jewellery Market Summer Exhibition (2025)UK Retail Jewellery Festival, Bright New Gems (2025)
CSM Graduate Showcase, Lethaby Gallery (2024)
‘MINE’, Munich Jewellery Week, Vitsoe Showroom (2024)
Jewellery Activist 70k 70 Artists (2022)
Emerging Talent, Precious Collective Online Jewellery Week (2021)
Awards
The Benevolent Society Bursary (2025)
Bright New Gems Winner (2024)
Louis Vuitton Project Winner awarded by Artistic Director, Francesca Amfitheatrof (2022)
Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers Alias Wire Workers Runners Up Award (2022)
J & J Bursaries Scholarship (2020)
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