A selection of Cleopatra’s Bling designs will be presented alongside ancient jewellery artefacts, relics, and casts of historical pieces, highlighting the endurance of craftsmanship as both repair and reinvention.
Visitors will be surrounded by the echoes of master artisans at work—the rhythmic hammering of metal, the whisper of wax carving, and the weight of history in every piece.
Inspired by Sailing to Byzantium, W.B. Yeats’ meditation on the endurance of art, the exhibition explores jewellery as an artefact of movement, ritual, and transformation. Like poetry and music, jewellery carries the imprint of its maker and wearer across time. Rooted in ancient techniques from Byzantium and beyond, Cleopatra’s Bling pieces are vessels of regeneration, forged through fire, shaped by hand, and imbued with memory.
This exhibition brings this journey to life through an immersive experience of sound, texture, and form.
