Cathrine Clarke – www.katesjewelry.com.br Cathrine Clarke was born in Santos, São Paulo. The designer graduated in Humanities at University and then studied Goldsmithing, Jewellery Design and Gemmology. Today she is devoting time to Art Theories because of her Contemporary jewels. Her atelier, Kate’s Jewelry, is in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Turned to the New Jewelry, she is a member of Magma, which has a permanent exhibition at Paulo Nogueira’s Art Gallery in Búzios. For the group, the criteria that determine the use of the materials are symbollical and experimental, remitting to origins and concepts, and subordinated only to the intentions behind the artistic creations. Kate has won both Brazilian and international awards, as the Japanese Government’s 2001 Pearl Design Contest, and Swiss Europa Star´s 2002 “Achievements in Inventiveness”. The designer was invited by the Foreign Ministry to participate with her conceptual jewellery in a Governmental programme to promote Brazil and its design in other countries. According to the editors of Couture International Jeweler magazine, she was nominated one of the best designers of today. The artist has held exhibitions in South America: The French-Brazilian Museum, National Congress, World Forum of Tourism, Unctad - Brazil, Argentina, Chile; in Europe: Switzerland, England, Spain, Portugal; in Asia: Tokyo, Hong Kong; and in the USA: New York, Las Vegas, Tucson. More recently she has partaken in exhibits at Rio’s Museum of Modern Art, at the I Brazilian Design Biennial, São Paulo, and at the Gemological Institute of America’s (GIA) Brazilian designers’ collection, in Carlsbad, which she helped promote, by indicating candidates. Today her jewellery is displayed at art galleries in Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. The author creates bearing in mind ecological issues, trying to express awareness in attitudes. Kate’s concerns are turned more to the activity of the natural world than to its produce, shapes and colours, which are only part of the physical aspects of an artwork. For her, Nature is a synonym of singularity, where nothing repeats itself, where each gem is unique, and therefore, she preserves their innate characteristics, like inclusions, fractures and growth lines. In an inverted process, instead of cutting rough gemstones to adapt them to projects, the craft jeweller composes her pieces based on the originality of the gems. The result is an exclusive collectanea of jewels with Contemporaneous design. In the latest collections, geometrical jewellery remits us to the concepts, among others, of “time/space” and “artistic production”, and visual spaces harmonise the different elements: stainless steel and silver, palladium, gold, gems. Articles on her oeuvre have been published in Claude Mazloum’s book Jewellery designers of the 21st. Century, Rome; in Gloria Corbetta’s Art Jewelry, Porto Alegre; and in Joice Joppert’s A glimpse of Brazilian design, São Paulo; and in the following magazines: A World of Dreams, Paris; Arte y Joya, Barcelona; Collection, Beirut; Couture International Jeweler, Geneva; Eurodesign Dossier, Barcelona; Gems & Jewellery, Bankok; Goldschiede Zeitung, Stuttgart; GZ Design + Art, Stuttgart; Isto É, São Paulo; J.Q.Magazine, Sonoma; Jewellery World Review, Bangkok; L’Orafo, Milan; Nexos, American Airlines, Mexico; The Basel Magazine, London; The Loupe, GIA; Trends & Colours, Geneva; Trends & Colours, Sonoma; Veja, São Paulo; Ventura, Rio de Janeiro; Words and Pictures, Kirkland; World One Journal, Baden-Baden. Kate also lectures and writes articles, critiques and biographies on jewellery, as for the bilingual art magazine Ventura and Guia Atelier, both from Rio de Janeiro.
