About Kimba
Your story isn't found in a catalogue. Why should your jewellery be?
Somewhere along the way, fine jewellery got predictable. Same templates, same settings, same white diamonds cut to vanish into a thousand identical rings. Beautiful, maybe, but anonymous. I've never had much interest in anonymous.
I'm Kimba. My friends call me fancy, and sometimes, sure, I am. But I love the wild more. I'm an adventurer at heart, and my plan for this one life is to roam the world hunting gemstones, then come home and get my hands dirty on the tools. Elegant when it counts, covered in metal dust the rest of the time. I make for the individualist: someone who wants a piece that feels modern, bold, and entirely their own.
And it always begins the same way, with a conversation. Not about carats. About you, and what you've lived, and what you're ready to mark. By the time a piece leaves my hands, it already knows your story.
The Bridge
My work is a conversation between two worlds. In Melbourne, I design with the boldness Australian craft does so well: clean geometry, strong form, contemporary edge. In Hoi An, I work beside artisans carrying generations of Vietnamese craft in their hands, delicate, deeply rooted, world-class in ways most of the industry never sees. Neither tradition alone makes the work I make. The bridge between them does.
The maker behind the bench
I also work as a manufacturing and design consultant, which means I've seen this industry from every angle, first sketch to final polish. So I don't design only for beautiful. I design for longevity, because I've learnt exactly how a piece fails when it isn't built with intention. My direct relationships with artisanal miners and gemcutters in Australia and Vietnam mean I work with stones that carry real provenance: gems with personality and a birthmark or two, not just a price tag.
Step behind the bench
The truest way to value something handmade is to understand the making of it. So I open my studio for workshops, an invitation to slow down, work with your hands, and leave with something that carries the story of its own making.
Jewellery to be lived in
I don't believe in keeping fine jewellery locked in a safe. I make for people who love the quiet, hidden details: the secret engraving inside the band, the parti sapphire with three colours fighting for space in one stone, the inclusion that proves this came from the earth and not a factory. Ceremonial ring or milestone piece, the intention's the same. A one-of-one that resonates with your story, and no one else's.
Let's co-create something that could only ever be yours.
On This Land I acknowledge that my Melbourne studio is located in Woiworung country, which is traditionally owned by the Wurundjeri-willam clan of the Woi wurrung speaking people. I recognise their continuing connection to the land, waters, and culture, and pay my respects to their past and present Elders.
Across the Bridge As a designer whose heart lives in two places, I also pay my respects to the land of my heritage in Vietnam. I honour the ancestors who paved the path for my own hands to create, and the guardians of the land who watch over the traditions and artistry that I carry with me today.
I am grateful for the opportunity to create on these two lands, and I commit to walking respectfully upon both.