Silent Language

14 May-19 May 2026

Overview

Xinru Dai, Maria Hanson, Yusi Wang, Yuxiao Zhu.

Bringing together multiple voices and perspectives, Silent Language reflects on what it means to be a woman today, and how lived experience can be translated into material form.

Supported by a British Council Connections Through Culture 2025 award, this international collaboration brings together artists and jewellers Xinru Dai, Maria Hanson, Yusi Wang and Yuxiao Zhu.

Working across the UK and China, the project responds to the complex challenges women continue to navigate within work, society and the home.

The exhibition presents the outcomes of a series of participatory workshops held in Sheffield and Wuhan, where jewellery-making became a means of connection, exchange, and storytelling.