Robert K E Mitchell, MDes
Perfection in craftsmanship along with functionality and design are crucial elements in any piece of jewellery. In my work, I try to create timeless pieces of wearable sculpture that enhances the human form. Contrasting textured surfaces of fossil or natural motifs with clean definitive lines for accent creates a desired visual tension bringing old and new together in the same piece. This presents an ageless balance between the past, present and future.
BIO
Robert is a Toronto based designer, maker and educator. He has created wearable art and design installations for over three decades. He is a jewellery professor at OCAD University and holds a Master of Strategic Foresight and Innovation. Robert has also curated, coordinated and juried numerous exhibitions, most recently “Crafting the Future”, a national student exhibition organized as part of the Canadian Craft Biennial Symposium in 2017. He has won numerous awards and grants from arts and fine craft organizations, his work is included in private and gallery collections, and he has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. Robert’s latest solo gallery exhibition, “Flow”, was in the fall of 2018.
Recent interests in Biomimicry and design principle have broadened the scope of Robert’s work to include sustainable industrial design projects. Robert recently received a master in Strategic Foresight and Innovation and he currently holds a number of patents for the development of a Passive Irrigation System.