About Angela Chiang
About
江 采容Angela Tsai-Jung Chiang
Angela Tsai-Jung Chiang
Angela Tsai Jung Chiang is a Taiwan and Malaysia based visual artist and fashion designer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, UK.
Her artworks devoted in inspirations drawn from Oriental literature and cultural heritage. Her BA Fashion graduate collection inspired her continuous studies in Chinese historical prints and reinterpretation through contemporary art and design.
Angela works across fashion, theatre costume, and printed textile. Her theatre collaboration of costume designs has taken place in Taiwan National Experimental theatre and Taiwan Traditional Theatre.
江采容於英國倫敦中央聖馬丁藝術設計學院，服裝設計系畢業。
畢業作品「枯萎花 The Withering Flower」靈感出自故鄉台灣和東方文化對花傳統的迷思與禁忌。將象徵厄運的淒美與不安，透過服裝印染技術作出衝突唯美的呈現。作品榮登英國1Granary雜誌當年度New Waves設計師專訪。隨之歐洲、香港、中國的雜誌及時尚平台接連報導相關作品。
2017年與曉劇場合作「 穢土天堂三部曲」戲劇表演於國家戲劇院實驗劇場演出。創作系列劇場服裝與印花，延續以各種花卉圖騰為意涵，描繪角色間、掙脫傳統對定義的框架，從初始的手繪勾出任何可能的思維。 2018年再度與曉劇場合作日本文豪三島由紀夫之「 憂國」一戲劇表演，於台灣戲曲中心演出，融會花卉印象印花入劇場服裝設計中。
2018年為國際飯店品牌ibis位於吉隆坡新開幕的飯店操刀飯店制服與印花設計以馬來西亞國花—朱槿，與東南亞傳統蠟染圖騰、及對稱排列等象徵和諧美好之意的設計元素，將印花創作與企業識別形象進行嶄新結合。
2019年與 Lou 陸承蔚、出色創意股份有限公司共同創立角色IP品牌『春花的衣櫥』。
2019年於自由人藝術公寓策展之第一屆台灣印花設計節展出。
2019年於伊日美學基金會策展之藝術自由日 Free Art Fair 展出。
EDUCATION:
2016, Fashion Design, BA, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, LONDON/UK.
MIXED EXHIBITIONS:
2019, "Taiwan Pattern Design Festival", With 40 Designers, TAIPEI/TAIWAN.
2019, "Taipei Free Art Fair", With 122 Artists, TAIPEI/TAIWAN.
EVENTS:
2019, "1884 Market Fair", Market Exhibition Participant, Tamsui Historical Museum, DANSHUI/TAIWAN.
PRESS APPEARANCES:
2016, "The Withering Flower", 1 Granary, November, LONDON/UK.
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2017, "The Withering Flower", BEIJING/CHINA.
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2019, "The Third Episode of Armageddon, Costume and Print Design", Taiwan Pattern Design Festival, TAIPEI/TAIWAN.
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2019, "Angela Chiang Designer Interview" Wonder Products, TAIPEI/TAIWAN.
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BOOKS:
2014, "1 GRANARY ISSUE 2", Page 81, 1 GRANARY, LONDON/UK.
2018, "足跡 事蹟 軌跡", Page 130-137, 心想文化創意有限公司, TAIPEI/TAIWAN, ISBN 9789869700313.
2019, "Designer Press (2020), A' Design Award - Product Winner Designs 2019-2020", Hardcopy Edition (Page 109) Vol. 35-P, Milan. ISBN 978-88-97977-31-5.
CLIENTELE
2017, Shinehouse Theatre, Designed theatre costume and print collections for theatre performance "The Third Episode of Armageddon".
2018, Shinehouse Theatre, Designed theatre costume and print collections for theatre performance "Yukoku".
2018, Daikin Inc., Designed exclusive cooperate bag products for Daikin's 2018 Trade Fair "Daikin Life and Air" in Taipei, Taiwan.
2018, ibis KLCC, Designed exclusive souvenir bag products for the hotel's grand opening in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2019, Pumpkin Creative Inc., Worked on art and design collaboration with Pumpkin Creative, co-founded Character IP brand "Jung's Wardrobe".
AWARDS
2019, Silver A' Design Award Winner for Textile, Fabric, textures, Pattern and Cloth Design Category.
Press
“The Withering Flower is a celebration of the power of the flower image. The flower is a popular subject written as personification in Chinese literature. In contrast to the blooming flower’s popularity, images of the decaying flower are often associated with jinx and taboos.
The collection looks at what shapes a community’s perception on what is sublime and abject. Designed in 100cm to 200cm length of tulle dresses, silkscreen printing on translucent mesh fabrics, the textile technique allows the prints to stay opaque and stretchy on mesh, creating an appearance of prints afloat in the air..”
2019, Silver A' Design Award Winner for Textile, Fabric, textures, Pattern and Cloth Design Category.
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2020, "The Withering Flower", Designer Interviews
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“Having a vase of withering flowers in a room is believed to bring bad health, and some of Taiwan’s older hospital buildings don’t have a 4th floor as the word has the same pronunciation as death.
Looking at these themes, Angela Chiang started to discover the deliberate avoidance towards the inevitability of mortality in Oriental myths, which led her to develop a collection based on Chinese taboos. It was a practice in how to display mistrust and sinister elements in a beautiful manner, yet looking back at how traditions and cultural myths have shaped our senses.
As she came across our often immediate affinity with prettiness and the sublime, Angela wanted to celebrate the rotting flowers; the impossibility of sustained perfection..”
2016, "The Withering Flower", 1 Granary
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“枯萎花”一系列服裝構想源自於花在東方文化及文學裡的含義與象徵。在曹雪芹的『紅樓夢』中，花的象徵比擬女性角色、十二金釵，各自的年華風情、或是花漾，或是流離。
花團錦簇的盛開與枝葉的細細凋零，寫照出故事裡的女性在傳統封建社會中細數的光年。除了東方文學裡的擬花擬人，花於風水和東方禮節中也有舉足輕重的含義。
我一直鍾情於研究花在東方文化里的解讀，它的多樣貌、好似永恆、也好似短暫易逝的光陰。 --- Angela Tsai Jung Chiang
2017, "The Withering Flower", gooood
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