Pompeiian Landscape (silver), 2024

In the Old Hebrew testament, ‘glebe’ was the primal earth, from which the first humans were formed. Lijn intends her jewellery to be worn, as if one were moulding a clod of ‘glebe’ to a part of one’s body. She wants people to wear the earth.
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Veiled, 2020

Referencing both tribal architecture and a veiled female presence, Veiled’s form recalls the conical skeleton of a thipi (or tipi), a tent traditionally made of animal skins draped on wooden poles.
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Temenos, 2021

December 2021 to February 2022 & November 2025 to March 2026

The Light sculpture was installed in Granary Square, King's Cross, London, 2021-2022; and in Lewis Cubitt Square, London, 2025-2026.
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Catastrophic Encounters, Liliane Lijn’s sculptural series 2019-2020

The series of 16 works created by a process involving molten glass poured onto Vapourshield—a mica and stainless steel composite—creating cratered, fossil-like structures that mimic macrocosmic events. Catastrophic Encounters exemplifies Lijn’s interest in the life of different materials and how they inter-react.
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Power Hanky, 2020

Made during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, this LRRH_ Contribution edition is a tribute to an almost forgotten accessory of personal hygiene: the handkerchief.
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Gravity’s Dance, 2019

The kinetic sculpture Gravity's Dance emerged from Liliane Lijn's artist residency at EGO, the European Gravitational Observatory, in Pisa.
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