Kate Furman
Jeweller
Published: 29.09.2020
katefurman.comNecklace: Assemblage, 2020
Wood, sterling silver, copper, bronze, silk, satin.
24 x 18 x 2 cm
Photo by: Eli Warren
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Necklace: Crumpling, 2019
Wood, sterling silver.
30 x 8 x 56 cm
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Necklace: Petrified, 2019
Bronze
46 x 5 x 46 cm
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Necklace: Decay, 2019
Wood, bronze.
30 x 8 x 56 cm
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Necklace: Moss, 2019
Wood, brass, silk.
25 x 5 x 56 cm
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Image from the collaborative exhibition "The Lines Within" May 2016, Greenville, SC, USA.
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Neckpiece: Memoir, 2015
Wood, copper, brass, steel
36.8 x 25.4 x 7.6 cm
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Necklace: Stumps, 2015
Wood, brass, suede
53.3 x 20.3 x 10.2 cm
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Necklace: Pin, 2015
Wood, brass, silk
45.7 x 6.4 x 10.2 cm
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Necklace: Flow, 2015
Wood, brass, cotton
35.6 x 10.2 x 3.8 cm
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Necklace: Season, 2015
Wood, brass, copper, cotton
41.9 x 15.2 x 5.1 cm
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Neckpiece: Bough, 2015
Wood, copper, brass, steel, sterling silver
45.7 x 15.2 x 5.1 cm
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Necklace: Timber, 2015
Wood, brass, silk
86.4 x 10.2 x 6.4 cm
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Necklace: Arbor, 2015
Wood, brass, suede
30.5 x 27.9 x 5.1 cm
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Necklace: Arbor, 2015
Wood, brass, suede
30.5 x 27.9 x 5.1 cm
Back view
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Neckpiece: Knot, 2015
Wood, brass, steel
8.9 x 7.6 x 1.9 cm
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Necklace: Ballast, 2015
Wood, brass, suede
55.9 x 15.2 x 6.4 cm
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Neckpiece: Quake, 2015
Wood, brass
61 x 40.6 x 1.3 cm
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Neckpiece: Cobble, 2014
Wood, brass
14 x 10 x .5
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Kate FurmanNeckpiece: Floweret, 2014
Wood, brass
18 x 12 x .5
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Kate FurmanNeckpiece: Hew, 2014
Wood, brass, silk
8 x 5 x .5
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Neckpiece: Ligature, 2014
Wood, suede, brass
20 x 7 x .5
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Kate FurmanNeckpiece: Meld, 2014
Wood, brass
11 x 7 x 1
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Neckpiece: Splice, 2014
Wood, brass
9 x 8 x .5
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Kate FurmanNeckpiece: Twine, 2014
Wood, brass, copper, steel
12 x 4 x 4
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Neckpiece: Twine, 2014
Wood, brass, copper, steel
12 x 4 x 4
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Kate FurmanNeckpiece: Wilt, 2014
Wood, brass, epoxy resin
8 in x 3/4 in x 5 in
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Kate FurmanNeckpiece: Wilt, 2014
Wood, brass, epoxy resin
8 in x 3/4 in x 5 in
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Kate FurmanBrooch: Extended, 2013
Wood, brass, copper, steel, epoxy resin
7
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Neckpiece: gathering, 2013
Wood, brass, epoxy resin
7
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Neckpiece: Stacked, 2013
Wood, copper, steel, epoxy resin
18
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Kate FurmanNeckpiece: Confluence, 2013
Wood, copper, steel, silk
21
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Neckpiece: Entangled, 2013
Wood, brass, suede
12
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Neckpiece: Entangled, 2013
Wood, brass, suede
12
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Kate FurmanNeckpiece: Ensemble, 2013
Wood, steel, suede, epoxy resin
16.5
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Kate FurmanNeckpiece: Chips, 2013
Wood, brass, silk, epoxy resin
12
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Kate FurmanNeckpiece: Edges, 2013
Wood, silk, epoxy resin
2
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Kate FurmanNecklace: Splinters, 2012
Found wood, brass
32” x 16” x 1”
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Kate FurmanNecklace: Splinters, 2012
Found wood, brass
32” x 16” x 1”
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Necklace: Limbs, 2012
Found wood, brass
12” x 2 1/2” x 1 1/2”
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Necklace: Chopped, 2012
Found wood, waxed linen, epoxy resin
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Necklace: Chopped, 2012
Found wood, waxed linen, epoxy resin
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Necklace: Fragments, 2012
Found wood, silk, epoxy resin
14” x 5” x 4”
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Necklace: Gravity, 2012
Found wood, steel, brass, silk, epoxy
20” x 5 1/2” x 2”
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Necklace: Gravity, 2012
Found wood, steel, brass, silk, epoxy
20” x 5 1/2” x 2”
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Kate FurmanNecklace: Hewn, 2012
Found wood, brass, steel, sterling silver
15” x 3” x 1 1/2”
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Kate FurmanNecklace: Hewn, 2012
Found wood, brass, steel, sterling silver
15” x 3” x 1 1/2”
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Necklace: Lines, 2012
Found wood, silk, epoxy resin
14” x 2 1/2” x 3 1/2”
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Kate FurmanNecklace: Reassembled, 2012
Found wood, steel, suede, epoxy resin
4 1/2” x 3 “ x 1 1/2”
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Necklace: Linked, 2012
Found wood, steel, brass, silk, epoxy resin
24” x 3 1/2” x 1 1/2”
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Kate FurmanNecklace: Linked, 2012
Found wood, steel, brass, silk, epoxy resin
24” x 3 1/2” x 1 1/2”
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Brooch: Reconciled, 2012
Found wood, brass, steel, copper
12” x 11” x 3 1/2”
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Brooch: Reconciled, 2012
Found wood, brass, steel, copper
12” x 11” x 3 1/2”
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In 2012, Kate Furman graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island with a Master of Fine Art in Jewelry + Metalsmithing. Kate collects things while is wandering in wilderness, seduced by the cast of flora generously littering the ground beneath my feet. Each piece in her series evokes the place where it was found and what the artist was doing there.
Statement
Nature is my greatest inspiration. While in the woods surrounded by the astonishing details of a tree trunk’s swollen scar or the intricate furrows of creatures burrowing beneath its bark, my senses are fully engaged. In my work, I translate this admiration and wonder into jewelry, a format as intimate to the body as the moments I pass in untouched, tranquil wilderness. After gathering detritus from the forest floor, I manipulate, alter and respond to the beauty within branches, bark, and sticks. By tracing and replicating the curves of the human body, my pieces contour and move to it, thereby intertwining and activating each other.I am interested in calling attention to the intersection between people and the environment through ways the two affect each other. As Sigmund Freud describes in Civilization and Its Discontents, humans repress the environment and their animal instinct in order to control nature and live a civilized life. My process responds to this need without taking full authority over the natural materials. Instead, I direct a harmonious dialogue between them, revealing the ways we affect and intersect each other. The resulting forms show a sense of my influence but retain an inherent rawness; a collaboration and language of mark-making develop between us.
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