The Utopia Square Bangle in yellow gold and titanium is a handmade piece by Phoebe Porter, created for e.g.etal’s exhibition Site Specific.
“Drawing on the Bauhaus methodology of playful experimentation with colour and form, each bracelet is an expression of geometry that directly reflects the properties of titanium and the precision, accuracy and method needed to work such a strong metal. My design process is one of elimination, seeking order and clarity and to always distil an idea to its purest form. This approach is a product of my training, strongly influenced by European modernism as taught by the staff at the Canberra School of Art, and also by my upbringing, living and working in Canberra, a city designed in 1912 by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin with the utopian vision of early Modernism as the ‘ideal city of the future’.”
Site Specific, presented as part of Radiant Pavilion Naarm/Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial, is an exhibition that pays homage to the relationship between the interior and exterior of our being, and the inability to separate oneself from their environment.
Pieces from this collection will be shipped at the conclusion of the exhibition (from 3 October, 2024).
