Adina Marin was born in Bucharest, Romania. She is 27 years old and she finished Nicolae Tonitza Art School in Bucharest, and three years ago she graduated the University of Architecture, at UAUIM, Bucharest. During high school she worked at projects based on engravings, with different experimental techniques. As a student, she dedicated her time learning about architecture. During her studies, she discovered WOOL, but, at that time, she had no idea what to do with it.
She spent some time in France where she bought her first 30 grams of colored wool. But it was not until 2012 that she decided to give it a try. And that is how her journey began. She won a contest in Bucarest, Inspired Accessories, which gave her the chance to meet some very interesting people. Among them was David Sandu with whom she learned many beautiful things in the silver jewelry art field. After finishing the first course at his school, Assamblage, he invited her to participate at Jewelry Design Fair, as a jeweler. After that, a series of fairs followed, JDF and AUTOR.
She likes experimenting different types of expressing ideas, from architecture, to jewelry, and in-between. She divides her time between drawing silver and gold jewelry, drawing walls around spaces and furniture, molding wool, creating experiential programs for kids. As a jewelry maker, she works only with wool, and recently brass. She loves making nonsensical drawings on paper. And then, she gives them some meaning. What she likes about working with wool is that she gets to make the same thing, but in 3D. She gets to hold in her hands the nonsensical drawing. It’s quite fun to discover the shapes the wool can take. After experiencing shapes, she concentrates on an idea to make her collections.
She uses ideas from all the fields she works in, mixing them, changing and readjusting them. She learns from wool, from bricks, from wood, from her colleagues and friends and especially from the children she works with and for whom she designs programs.
Exhibiting at Wood&Wool // Wool, but Wood necklace
Adina Marin used wool fibers to create an oversized piece of paper. Not an imitation, but rather her view of it. It’s a tribute to the lovely wood and to the much needed sheet of paper. Wool is not just the mean to achieve her final goal – a necklace, wool fibers have their own personality. They are hard to domesticate, to restrain in a rigid form. So the result is always surprising.
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She spent some time in France where she bought her first 30 grams of colored wool. But it was not until 2012 that she decided to give it a try. And that is how her journey began. She won a contest in Bucarest, Inspired Accessories, which gave her the chance to meet some very interesting people. Among them was David Sandu with whom she learned many beautiful things in the silver jewelry art field. After finishing the first course at his school, Assamblage, he invited her to participate at Jewelry Design Fair, as a jeweler. After that, a series of fairs followed, JDF and AUTOR.
She likes experimenting different types of expressing ideas, from architecture, to jewelry, and in-between. She divides her time between drawing silver and gold jewelry, drawing walls around spaces and furniture, molding wool, creating experiential programs for kids. As a jewelry maker, she works only with wool, and recently brass. She loves making nonsensical drawings on paper. And then, she gives them some meaning. What she likes about working with wool is that she gets to make the same thing, but in 3D. She gets to hold in her hands the nonsensical drawing. It’s quite fun to discover the shapes the wool can take. After experiencing shapes, she concentrates on an idea to make her collections.
She uses ideas from all the fields she works in, mixing them, changing and readjusting them. She learns from wool, from bricks, from wood, from her colleagues and friends and especially from the children she works with and for whom she designs programs.
Exhibiting at Wood&Wool // Wool, but Wood necklace
Adina Marin used wool fibers to create an oversized piece of paper. Not an imitation, but rather her view of it. It’s a tribute to the lovely wood and to the much needed sheet of paper. Wool is not just the mean to achieve her final goal – a necklace, wool fibers have their own personality. They are hard to domesticate, to restrain in a rigid form. So the result is always surprising.
