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Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents Persistence of Form, an exhibition exploring the dialogue between jewellery and functional art through a shared language of composition across scale. Bringing together leading female voices from the gallery’s roster, the show highlights how jewellery extends naturally from each artist’s broader sculptural practice—shaping, framing and activating space, from interiors to the body.
Ingrid Donat transforms bronze, parchment and wood through her signature scarification technique. In works such as Bibliothèque Quatre Saisons and Commode 14 Tiroirs, intricate hand-worked surfaces elevate functional objects into sculpture. A similar attention to relief appears in Aki Cooren’s Tiss-Tiss Ring, whose linen-imprinted texture translates textile softness into metal—demonstrating how rhythm and surface unite wearable and functional forms.
Léa Mestres introduces play and humour through colourful, anthropomorphic works. Crafted in her custom plaster “lélélite,” Nene balances whimsy with structural precision, defining its surrounding space through volume and silhouette.
For Ane Christensen, sculpture moves fluidly between table and hand. Ghost Bowl and Shallow Ring share a pared-back geometry that frames emptiness as an active element, revealing jewellery as an exercise in spatial thinking.
The exhibition also honours Line Vautrin, whose brooches and Soleil à Pointes n° 4 bridge adornment and reflective sculpture—embodying the show’s central idea: jewellery as intimate object and architectural presence.
Additional artists include Gabriella Crespi, Johanna Grawunder, Ika Kuenzel, Charlotte Perriand, Simon Prouvé and Najla El Zein, whose works further explore the relationship between material, form and function across scales.
