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All 16 /Public Sculpture 16

Commission: Temenos at Granary Square

Converse Column, 2019

Nexus, Leeds University has commissioned the permanent installation Converse Column.

A nine-meter high revolving column of transforming words, Converse Column is sited adjacent to Nexus, the University’s new centre, designed to inspire collaboration and innovation with real world impact.
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Sunstar, 2018

Sunstar is a large-scale interactive solar installation in the landscape that makes the solar spectrum visible as a brilliantly clear light on the horizon, just at the meeting point of earth and sky.
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Converse Column: new public art commission

The University of Leeds has commissioned Liliane Lijn to create a new work of public art for its campus.

Autumn 2018
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Spinning Dolls, 2016

Il Museo della Canapa, Sant’Anatolia di Narco in Italy has commissioned the permanent installation titled Spinning Dolls.
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Peace Koans, 2013

Liliane Lijn has created sculptures based around the form of the koan since the sixties. This body of work, within her whole practice, is subject to great variety and subtlety.
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Light Pyramid, 2012

Commissioned by MK Gallery and Milton Keynes Parks Trust as a sculpture beacon. Geometry and Light are the guiding threads of Lijn's work. The central concept of this sculpture is that of energy held within matter.
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Starslide, 2005

Lijn’s concept of sculpture is that no part of it should be unnecessary. She wanted to design a slide that both in concept and form would be an integral part of the sculpture.
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Starslide (Construction), 2005

It was a great challenge to conceive of a sculpture that was also a helter-skelter. To mould a spiral slide into a cone was an extremely complex technical problem.
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Inner Light III, 2003

Commissioned by St. Thomas’ and Guy’s Hospital Charitable Trust for the Maternity Ward of St. Thomas’ Hospital, London.
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Land Sea Light Koan, 1997

In Land Sea Light Koan Lijn return to striped cones she made in 1966 which she called Highway Cones. The numerous bands of colour reminded Lijn of the rings of Saturn. The cone is a cosmic astronomical form.
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Dragon’s Dance, 1994

Like many of Lijn’s works Dragons Dance invites the viewer to play an active role, the solid bronze members and the open spaces between them weaving a dance of light and form that changes as one moves around the sculpture.
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Inner Light, 1993

The central concept is that of energy held within matter.
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Carbon Black, 1988

Lijn used identical geometric elements to create an organic form dependent on the spatial relationship and connections between the separate elements.
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Argo, 1988

Commissioned by NM Schroder for their newly built head office in Poole, designed by Wells -Thorpe and Supple Ltd
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Zig Zag Blues, 1987

Using formal geometric elements, Lijn creates an organic serpentine form by varying the relationship between the single elements.
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