Rising Melbourne jewellery star Eloise Falkiner‘s Thetis collection, as evocative as it is lovely, launched at Northcote’s Comune Gallery on the Melbourne Fashion Festival‘s culture programme.
Words and photographs: Reannon Smith (Scroll south to meet the Voxfrocker.)
Like sunlight catching ocean ripples, Eloise Falkiner’s latest collection, Thetis, shimmers.
Inspired by the Greek goddess of the sea, Thetis, Falkiner’s worked gleaming pure metals, pearls and precious gems into an elegant homage to the ethereal plays of light, underwater colours and textures of the ocean. Her “Sapphire Thetis” ring for example (pictured), is a captivating part of the collection, reminiscent of watery depths and reefed clusters of coral. It makes a statement on its own, or can be elevated by stacking with her “Arched Seafoam” ring.
Falkiner’s credentials explain her intuitive talent for designing cool, beautiful jewels. With a certificate in Gold and Silversmithing in hand, she continued her studies in botanicals and their medicinal qualities, eventually marrying the two to create the first collection of her eponymous brand.
The Comune Gallery in eclectic Northcote where the Thetis collection was launched and now displayed, was also designed by Falkiner, its pressed metal ceiling and calming, textured green walls creating a feeling of floating amongst a tangle of sea flora, just above the seabed.
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