Kate Billingsley is a Jewellery and Textile designer based in Boolarra, Gippsland. She creates extravagantly colourful jewellery and patterned textiles for the joyful maximalists in life, and all her textile products feature her original signature fabric designs. Kate’s jewellery is created from lightweight polymer clay and acrylic, and features hypoallergenic high grade 304 surgical steel posts. Each piece is patterned, finished and constructed by hand, meaning that every pair is a little unique. Kate also occasionally teaches polymer clay workshops around Gippsland. Kate’s textile products primarily feature traditionally painted watercolour motifs, which are then arranged into repeat patterns in Photoshop and Illustrator, before being digitally printed onto base cloth and finally sewn into products. Kate completed a Certificate IV in Design at ISCD, before going on to study a diploma in Surface Design. Kate has also studied and taken short courses in various creative disciplines, including botanical illustration.