"A piece of jewellery should provoke! Provoke questions, provoke emotions, provoke desires!" says Esther Brinkmann. This Swiss-born jewellery designer has been a celebrated artist for creating handmade jewellery which in her words, "offers a specific relationship to the body, which questions our behaviour and our needs in life: meaningful activities and relationships, relaxing and spiritual moments, emotion and beauty." Brinkmann shares how she was compelled to take up jewellery designing in the first place, "When I was in my 20s, I saw two Multiples by Dieter Roth (a famous artist who worked with many different medias) at the Art Fair in Basel, his Zoo Rings and the Huts. For the first time, I perceived that there was a different way to consider jewellery and I decided to study jewellery in Geneva, where I was living."

Untitled, double ring, Gold and oxidised iron, 2000 - 2012

Brinkmann has been in Mumbai for four years, and will now be featuring her jewellery pieces in the exhibition, Renewable Pleasures: The India Chapter. Wife of the Consul General of Switzerland, Brinkmann has been borrowing inspiration from various kinds of places, every four years or so, including China before she took up residence in the city.