Showcase by Katie Goodfellow – Anice Jewellery

Katie Goodfellow is the Material Supervisor, Jewel Dreamer & Assistant Designer of Anice Jewelry. At the stop of her fourth calendar year at Ryerson College, she focused her final showcase about her adore for style, jewels, styling and feminine empowerment. For the showcase, Katie designed a selection of pieces that would start by Anice for International Woman’s Working day. Along with the assortment, she directed and styled a shoot, shot by resourceful counterpart and amazing talent, Riley Janes. The assortment introduced inside of Anice for Worldwide Women’s Day, with parts that have been stamped with “GRL PWR” and meaningful offers, all documenting the power and resilience of gals. 

The showcase bundled customized jewellery, sketches, picture curation, an artist assertion and published function that went along with her art. It was laid out in a sequence, documenting the course of action. 

 Read on to get to know a minimal little bit extra about our Assistant Designer, her innovative system, and why Anice is exclusive to her.

Artist Assertion:

My appreciate for jewelry stemmed from an attraction to rather factors. I vividly try to remember walking into Anice Jewelry and halting dead in my tracks. I felt as though I experienced discovered a place that spoke to me as if I experienced dreamt it and constructed it myself. Anice was crammed with attractiveness, and I had an overpowering perception that if I still left without conversing to the proprietor, I would miss out on my probability at becoming a aspect of some thing that I could only describe as magic. Speedy forward 3 years, that exact same jewelry retail store proprietor has turn into my pricey good friend and my most important mentor. The store that utilised to be a tiny hub of magic has grown in size but has hardly ever missing it’s sparkle. The magic has still to subside.

Lifetime delivers you back again residence in waves, and I thank the increase and tumble of this life’s h2o for bringing me home to the shop I generate my very best self inside. A short while ago I have been doing the job on incorporating my creations with my enjoy for styling and style route. I am endlessly grateful to Brittany Hopkins, proprietor of Anice Jewellery, for educating me all I know about jewelling and for permitting me to have innovative enter in the entirety of the retail outlet. This life would be very little with out human beings who devote their lives to creating the splendor that we see, that we sense and that we recall. You should join me in celebrating the women of all ages in our lives, the warmth in our life, and the artwork in our lives, in its numerous sorts.

– Katie

Pictures by Riley Janes, @rileyalexandra.

Header photograph by Naim Jutha, @naimjutha.

(S)he who seeks attractiveness will uncover it.

I have always been attracted to the plan of artwork as a own knowledge. That a thing so lovely and breathtaking to 1 human being, could possibly be one thing that an additional human being just passes by, without the need of acquiring any kind of impression. I like this idea, because it suggests that the human being who activities its elegance and see’s its depth, has viewed something so particular that no a single else will working experience in really the exact same way. Isn’t it a lovely strategy that in a world constructed on repetition, a person could have this sort of a personal conversation, that requirements no phrases or rationalization? Is not it a attractive plan that art’s inclusiveness makes it possible for for an open dialogue that can be contributed to by all?

Some thing that I love about producing tailor made jewellery for Anice is that when a piece is made, it is normally designed with no certain human being in mind, but often persons are so drawn to a little something, it’s as if it were meant for them. The way another person will stroll into the shop and be right away drawn to a piece is my favorite observation. The way human being soon after particular person will pass by a piece, and then all of the unexpected the appropriate one will wander in, cease dead in their tracks and pick it up. It is the individual link that can manifest by way of art.

This outlook on art has provided me the capability to see generation as a universal existence. The skill to develop and make “art” in any perception of the term sees no gender. Creative imagination is blind to its creator. As we fight for a planet the place remaining form and being generous is more vital than the gender that you detect as, I will go on to fight for ladies all over the place who are strong and strong and who have been noticed as fewer for also extended. Feminine empowerment is not some thing I stand for since I am a lady. Feminine empowerment is anything I stand for because I am a human.

I shell out my days day-dreaming of imaginative perform. I function tricky to make these endeavours possible for the reason that when I am resourceful I am whole. I prosper off of passion both other individuals and my individual. I create simply because I really like to. Even though, I acknowledge that quite a few females close to the earth produce simply because they have to. They are forced to make in buy to survive. To individuals women, and to the gals who are sturdy and potent and brave enough to bare their souls in their perform, I share this with you.

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