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☰ Kate Coe Temnomeroff

Wearable Objects

Art for the human form

These pieces began through an exploration of resin and metal, and gradually became an extension of my wider artistic practice.

I am interested in relationships: between materials, objects and people, and between memory, identity, displacement and belonging. In these small wearable constructions, separate fragments are divided, enclosed and brought together again. The wire [alluminium, copper, brass, silver or gold] becomes both structure and drawn line, tracing boundaries between areas of resin while occasionally escaping them altogether. Openings and empty spaces become part of the composition alongside colour and material.

Their irregularity is deliberate. I am interested in the point at which separate elements retain their individual histories while becoming part of something new — a process that echoes my wider exploration of displacement, integration and reconstruction.

Jewellery also introduces the body into this conversation. Unlike an artwork that remains on a wall, a wearable object travels with another person. It is touched, carried and lived with, gradually acquiring associations and memories of its own.

I think of these works less as conventional jewellery than as small, wearable artworks: fragments of a larger visual language that moves between photography, drawing, objects, textiles and material experimentation.

A Suffolk Elsewhere

Irregular fields of olive, earth and harvested gold recall the Suffolk landscape seen from above. A small path curls away from the larger territories towards an imagined place somewhere beyond the fields.

Resin, Brass and Sari Silk Ribbon

Approx. 3.5 × 7.5 cm

£225 / Available — enquiries

She Closed One Eye

One eye appears open while the other rests beneath a sweeping black form. The work recalls inherited advice about relationships: see clearly first, then allow one eye to soften towards imperfection while keeping the other open — an equilibrium between acceptance, awareness and boundaries.

Resin, Brass and Sari Silk Ribbon

Approx. 5 × 6.5 cm

£210 / Private Collection

Beneath the Black Swan

A black swan emerged unexpectedly within the upper fragment after the work was made. Beneath it hangs a second, more intricate territory — a small underworld of openings, boundaries and suspended forms.

Resin, Brass and Silk

Approx. 3 × 8 cm

£245 / Available — enquiries

The Queen's Broken Mirror

Pink glitter and cold silver-grey first suggest something playful, before a fractured face begins to emerge from the geometry. The work recalls the broken mirror of Andersen's The Snow Queen, where beauty, coldness and distorted perception become inseparable.

Resin, Coated Alluminium and Sari Silk Ribbon

Approx. 4.5 × 5.5 cm

£175 / Available — enquiries

The Geometry of Her

An abstract arrangement gradually reveals something figurative: a woman, a dress, perhaps a body seen from more than one direction. Curves, apertures and a single spiral soften and complicate its geometric structure.

Resin, Brass and Sari Silk Ribbon

Approx. 4.5 × 8 cm

£195 / Private Collection

Where Four Lands Meet

Its earthy greens, browns and golds brought to mind an imagined African landscape seen from above: divided territories, savanna and the sudden movement of a storm. At its centre, four separate areas converge at a single point, turning boundaries into a place of meeting.

Resin, Brass and Sari Silk Ribbon

Approx. 4.5 × 6 cm

£175 / Private Collection

Accommodation

An early experiment in the series, exploring the way separate areas of colour meet, interrupt and accommodate one another. Open and enclosed circles repeat across the composition, while suspended fragments carry the relationship between forms beyond the main body of the work.

Resin, Brass and Silk

Approx. 4.5 × 10.5 cm

Artist's Collection

Untitled

Overlapping fields of gold, silver and translucent green move between surface and space. Circular openings recur throughout the composition, while one turns outward from the plane, allowing another fragment to hang freely from the structure.

Resin, Brass and Sari Silk Ribbon

Approx. 4 × 5.5 cm

Artist's Collection

Ophelia Victoria

A complex arrangement of articulated and suspended forms, held together through a series of small connections. Each element retains its own weight and direction, while becoming part of a larger equilibrium — an exploration of relationship, balance and the composure that can exist within complexity.

Resin, Coated Alluminium and Sari Silk Ribbon

Artist's Collection

Resin, Brass and Sari Silk Ribbon

Artist's Collection

Resin, Brass and Sari Silk Ribbon

Artist's Collection

Resin, Brass and Sari Silk Ribbon

Artist's Collection