About Cindy Xu

From digital to the tangible

Cindy Xu is a Sydney based award-winning jewellery designer and artist, she had previously worked as a digital game producer and studio executive. Upon moving to Australia with her husband David Ying, who had introduced her to the outback mining towns of Lightning ridge and Coober Pedy. Upon visiting lightning ridge she became fascinated by opal gems. Her fascination soon grown to an obsession to create her own opal jewellery pieces, leading her to expand opal jewellery to new generation of opal lovers like herself.

She trained herself at the Gemological Institute of America, in 2019 she won the jewellery design award at the Sydney international jewellery fair.  According to herself opal mining and opal jewellery design is such a rare skill, she owes much of her knowledge and skill to the miners and opal cutter in Lightning Ridge. As well as visiting mining towns of Australia, she likes to travel throughout the year to various jewellery exhibitions around the globe, she often visits the Hong Kong international jewellery show.

Cindy’s Signature pieces often feature genuine Australian boulder opal or black opal sourced from Lightning Ridge. She finds her inspiration from outback adventures to endangered wildlife, traveling through Australia has inspired her and her husband’s to raise awareness to endangered wildlife species as well as global issues such as biodiversity and climate change.