Kale Needham, is the Transmasc Indigiqueer jewelry artist behind Triple Five Jewelry. Their work is recognizable by it’s rugged beauty, unapologetically queer themes and highly technical craftsmanship. 

Graduating from VCC in 2022 with a Jewelry Art And Design Diploma, Alongside their diploma, Kale was honoured with the Positive Spaces Scholarship and the Y.P Heung Foundation Post-Secondary Award, recognizing their commitment to building community among their peers and constantly striving for creative and personal growth. 

Myriad jewelry-making processes coalesce in Kale's work, including stone setting, hand engraving, fabrication, lost wax casting, forging, and hollow form, punctuated by a chaotic style of experimentation. The result is an unexpected juxtaposition of heavy texture with smooth polishing, dark engravings with mirror finishes, and symbols of masculinity and femineity warped through explicitly trans-queer-gender-fuck aesthetics. 

In jewelry, Kale found solace and inspiration, and they want to share this power of self-discovery, self-expression, and transformation with other queers through their bold, unconventional, genderless jewelry. In a world that systematically seeks to silence marginalized voices, Kale refuses to be silenced. Through their art, they reclaim their narrative, create space for queer community, and send a love letter to queerness itself. For Kale jewelry has been a lifeline, a path through recovery, a creative outlet, and a vision of a future worth working toward.

Triple Five Jewelry acknowledges that they live and work on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.