TO INFINITY

 

AND

 

BEYOND

(BUZZ LIGHTYEAR)

 

KATE FLEMING IS AS COMPLEX, UNCONVENTIONAL AND COURAGEOUS AS HER JEWELLERY

 

IN THE LATE 1990’S, WHILE LIVING IN EUROPE, KATE BECAME LEAD SINGER OF BULGARIAN GYPSY BAND, ARTERY, WHILE ROMANTICALLY SQUATTING IN AN ABANDONED HOSPITAL WITH A PRACTICE ROOM AND A SMALL BOAT FOR TRAVELLING TO GIGS IN THE CENTRE OF AMSTERDAM. SUPPORTING BETH ORTON AT THE MELKWEG WAS THE HIGHLIGHT.

 

BACK HOME IN MELBOURNE, INSPIRED BY THE JEWELLERY OF PARIS AND SPAIN, KATE STARTED MAKING AND SELLING HER OWN WORK AT THE GREVILLE STREET MARKETS BEFORE OPENING STORES IN THE CENTRAL MELBOURNE ICONIC MANCHESTER UNITY BUILDING AND BY THE BAY IN ELWOOD.

 

THE SUCCESS OF A SMALL EXHIBITION IN THE EAST VILLAGE, NYC, LED HER TO CONCENTRATE ON A COLLECTION FOR AN EXHIBITION IN FITZROY, WHICH SOLD OUT. THIS INSPIRED A MOVE TO LONDON IN 2003, WHERE HER WORK WAS PICKED UP BY THE ANTIPODIUM AGENCY AND SOLD TO LIBERTY OF LONDON, SAKS 5TH AVE IN NYC, HARVEY NICHOLS LONDON AND OUTLETS IN ASIA.

 

IN 2007, KATE MOVED TO THE TROPICAL ENVIRONS OF BALI TO PRODUCE ONE-OFF COLLECTIONS UNDER HER BRAND, KT JEWEL, AND MADE AVAILABLE ON HER WEBSITE AND IN STORES ACROSS THE GLOBE INCLUDING THE SIGNET BUREAU IN THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE IN FITZROY, AUSTRALIA!

 

KT JEWEL ONE OFF NECKLACE, EARRINGS AND RING PIECES ARE EXACTLY THAT; TOTALLY BESPOKE AND DESIGNED FROM AN ASTOUNDING RANGE OF MATERIALS WHICH COMBINE ANTIQUE OBJECTS AND NEW MATERIALS SUCH AS PRECIOUS METALS, ENGRAVED MOTHER OF PEARL, BLACK WOOD, PYRITE STONES, STERLING SILVER, GLASS AND DENDRITE AGATE STONE