Year established: 1999
Commendation: Eligible for Bronze this year
Alister’s business began in 1999, with the hope to ‘create dreams and achieve desires.’ Alister classifies the business as a gallery, as opposed to a jewellery store, as he sees its purpose as creating individual pieces of jewellery and finding out what people want, rather than just selling them what’s on the shelf.
The Ken Gray and Alister Reid Gallery is located on Collins Street, and as Alister explains, “it is a place where people love to come and browse”. Most of the pieces are crafted with precious metal and jewels, and many customers choose to bring in their old jewels to ‘reinvent’ them into something new.