Yes, we like the design, but does it feel good on the body? Interview with Ivan Barnett from Patina Gallery

The series by Klimt02 offers space for questions, ideas, and discussions about galleries, artists and the current jewellery market. This is the eight interview in a series of interviews with gallerists and art dealers from around the world.

We continue with Ivan Barnett, co-owner and director of Patina Gallery. Established in 1999, Patina exhibits clay, wood, sculpture, fiber and other mixed media objects. The gallery holds a unique position in the field because as few others, they show studio jewelry in the same gallery space with larger works. The gallerists stage them in a manner that allows ‘aesthetic discussions’ to take place, a kind of dialogue between the jewelry and different objects in the space.