Kickstart

• KickStart provides a commercial launch pad for the ten promising UK designers selected to exhibit on a group stand within the Design Gallery. Now in its fourth year, KickStart is an initiative developed by IJL and the British Jewellers’ Association to support up and coming British design talent looking to develop their businesses.
  
  It provides a boost for the industry and allows retailers attending IJL to discover some of the freshest design talent. This group showcase allows exceptional designers to gain business knowledge, exposure and retail contacts at the UK's most established, premier jewellery trade event.
  
  

• 2011 Line-up

  Amy Keeper Jewellery

  Amy Keeper jewellery is contemporary and handmade, using vintage postcards to create sterling silver pieces, evoking contemporary cameos. Inspired by a spyglass in a children’s story, her black and gold range features semi-precious stones and elements of movement. These ranges form a cohesive collection, sharing a sense of narrative and time.

  Cabbage is King

  Ranging from exquisite statement pieces, which serve to blur the distinctions between jewellery and art, to the purely decorative and beautiful. Cabbage is King is characteristically original, unique and imaginative. Each piece is realized through a re-contextualisation of form and an exploration of semantics.
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• Claire English - Special Jewellery Co

  Designer Claire English’ jewellery is luxurious and unmistakably English. Claire's whimsical designs are informed by her insatiable interest in the narrative potential of objects. Like a magpie she gathers stories - Claire sees herself as a 21st Century bricoleur, adept at presenting familiar items in mischievous and unexpected ways.

  Abigail Stradling

  Abigail’s signature glass jewellery combines hand blown hollow forms and lamp working with precious metals, creating work that is truly unique. The distinctive Time series encapsulates natural materials sourced from locations evoking a sense of place, time and memory. Her second collection explores the concept of Symbiosis through the relationship between two materials- glass and silver.
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• Sarah Ibrahim

  Sarah’s work is inspired by her heritage, travels and love of small and intriguing containers. It has an organic handmade feel with an industrial edge. ‘Keep It’ and ‘and then…’ make up Sarah’s first collection -The Beginning. Incorporated within these pieces are hidden lockets with bright gold leaf interiors and simple yet bold triangular shapes.

  Emma Turpin

  Emma’s aim is to bring the old and the new together. She has a passion for traditional craftsmanship which is reflected within her style, and at the same time she continually strives to create contemporary, wearable pieces of jewellery. Emma’s ‘Maidens Garlands’ collection consists of hand folded fine silver rosettes, a technique developed by herself.
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• Gina Melosi

  Gina's debut collection SHATTERED Fragments features jewellery with a crystallised design, where glass shards create a delicate yet dangerous effect. Gina casts broken glass fragments into recycled sterling silver, and each piece is finished with textured edges and polished surfaces. It is then plated in white rhodium or rose gold, the latter pave-set with fair-trade sapphires. Gina will also be launching her second striking collection at IJL.

  La Diosa

  Multi-award winning brand La Diosa – ‘The Goddess’ - specialises in semi-precious and precious gemstones, and the resulting jewellery is striking and alluring. Each piece is hand-made and inspired by the rare and unique gemstones carefully selected to create it. Having learned how to make jewellery whilst living in Mexico, the designers have kept an exotic influence in each design.
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• MIRPURI

  Elegant and sleek, MIRPURI’s attention-grabbing jewellery tastefully strikes that fine balance between a.m. subtlety and p.m. glamour. A former City banker, Johnny Mirpuri’s designs lend themselves especially well to the use of blackened sterling silver and draw on a combination of computer-aided technology and traditional hand-crafted techniques to bring them to life.

  Doreth Jones

  Doreth Jones is a skilled artisan, creating both classic and contemporary jewellery of repute from her London studio. Working in recycled silver adorned with vibrant coloured gem stones, Jones pieces are the embodiment of urban chic, of intricate beauty that will appeal to the confident and discerning individual.
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