Funky Scottish Gallery

Here is my work in display at the Funky Scottish Gallery in Pittenweem. You can view their Facebook page here. It's nice to have my work for sale now, the earrings have already been snapped up!

New Niobium

When I was in London at New Designers, I met Justine Lee, another maker who uses chainmail in her designs. Unfortunately I never managed to get a picture of her chainmail body piece, which was outstanding, but here is the image from her business card :

Justine Lee : Digital Shield

Her work really is amazing, it's a shame she doesn't have a website.

Anyway, on the last day of New Designers, she gave me a gift of some leftover niobium jump rings :

Niobium can be anodised in an amazing range colours and it's also hypoallergenic, so it's a great material to make jewellery from. I decided to have a go at trying out mixing some colours together, I love the black & gold ones. I'm not too keen on the blue, silver & purple ones,  but most people seemed to really like them.

Hopefully some more niobium jewellery coming soon!

K xx

Honours Project

This is me at my degree show, having a little pose with my work.

My honours project was primarily influenced by the designs of the late Alexander McQueen. I admire his uniquely inspirational attitude towards design. In his own words: “I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress”.

I explored ways of combining the contrasting qualities of strength and fragility, using the female form as the setting to create jewellery. The idea of armouring the female, empowering her, but at the same time revealing a softer, more fragile sense of being is the main thread throughout my work.

Using contrasted hard and soft materials such as metal and feathers, or fur, I have created pieces which reflect this ideal.

Photographer : Danielle Wilson
Model : Colette Dryburgh
Design & Styling : Kelly McAllister

Photographer : Bruce Sutherland

Model : Fedosia Murdoch

Designer : Kelly McAllister





It was great fun to make these pieces, and even better to see them worn during the photoshoots! I plan on getting some more amazing photo's done once I've worked on a few more pieces - I have so many ideas!

Thanks for looking xxx