COLOURS OF HOPE

Established in Hong Kong and Jingdezhen, Julie & Jesse is the creative partnership of designer Julie Progin (CH) and artist Jesse Mc Lin (US).

The duo’s practice stretches across the fields of design, craft, and art, blending research and material experimentation into the making of innovative porcelain objects and installations.

Training in art and different disciplines of design allows them to bridge conceptual and emotional narratives with meticulous making technique.

Julie & Jesse’s work manifests research into materials and follows a consistent conceptual path to capture a moment in time and place.

They embrace a unique approach to each project, inspired by its cultural, historic, and economic context as well as resources available at hand. 

Each work manifests the duo’s constant process of reinvention.

From capturing the movement of clay during firing to archiving the break and decay of distressed production moulds the key attributes of their work are time, context, and transformation.

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Julie & Jesse’s works have been shown at institutions such as M+ Museum, Design Society, the Triennale Di Milano & Chicago Design Museum. Their works are held in private and corporate collections as well as public permanent collections at the China Ceramic Museum in Jingdezhen, China, M+ Museum for Visual Culture, Hong Kong, and the K11 Art Foundation. They also work in close collaboration with international design companies such as COS to create unique installations.