Interview participant 4:
Shine Sha- Cuator and AR jewellery designer
Hello, this is MA researcher from Central Saint Martins. Thank you for contributing your time for this interview.
This interview is for the UK international creative graduates who’ve worked or engaged with the UK creative industries, or who are currently doing it.
Questions:
Could you introduce yourself? What is your practice and how long have you been working in your role(s) in the UK creative industries since you graduated?
Hi, I am Shine. I graduated from MA course last year from Kingston university, currently working as a AR Jewellery Designer and exhibition curator.
2. Were there any difficulties you experienced when first adapting to the UK creative industries environment? Have you since overcome these?
There were some difficulties, like the policy and management differences.
3. How have you found your role(s) or your value in creativity or any other contribution from yourself when you were engaging with the UK creative industries?
I enjoyed working in the UK creative industries. It offers me more challenges and opportunities at the same time.
4. Does anyone or any organisations help you with adaptation or contribution of value to the UK creative industries?
My friend helped me.
5. Have you engaged with the creative industries of any other countries? Can you think of anything in particular that you need to do or pay attention to in that country as well as in the UK?
I also curated exhibition in China. I have to make sure the concept and interpretation of the exhibitions are educative to audience in all age-group.
For my fourth interview, I have updated a few of the interview questions in order to have more information about how the adaptation works for every individual. From the response of the fourth interviewee shown, there are aspects such as policy, management differences, social skills and net-working for her adaptation to the UK creative environment. This result concludes the point that the adaptation in the UK creative industries reflects the adaptation of the personalities. On the one hand, people would do things and present the “personalities” that can benefit themselves to fit into the environment with the process of communication, collaboration, publicity, and so on, on the other, people will adapt to the “personality” of the UK creative industries, which they start challenging themselves from it.