Patricia Iglesias is a jewellery artist, living and working in Punta Arenas, Chile. She trained in Technical Drawing and Interior Design and Equipment, and has taken Diploma courses in Interior Design and Visual Arts. She learned goldsmithing in her hometown and has furthered her studies in jewellery workshops and the textile techniques.

She is an active member of the Association of Contemporary Jewellers Joya Brava and a member of the Fundación Artística de Chile, La Brújula Arte en Tránsito. He uses contemporary jewellery as a means of expression, experimentation and reflection, mainly in textile techniques, which he re-signifies. She explores antagonistic and sensorial materials to produce objects that are linked to the body in a performative way, alerting our sensibility.

I work with my surroundings and my own history, constructing objects that evoke the concept of self-generation of protection, which comes from the desire to find a shelter in the face of so much immensity - the Patagonian pampas. I use mostly woven and sewn wefts with fibres and threads, using techniques supposedly reserved for the feminine sphere within the domestic space and invented from the imaginary and the memory of family experiences, evoking that "handmade", ancestral world, which disappears little by little, in an increasingly industrial and globalised world. 

I invite the participation of the spectator, body and piece establish a certain relationship, to wear these objects you have to be an accomplice, to connect with their poetics.