Converse Column, commissioned by Nexus, Leeds University, 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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Converse Column Launch, 2019

3 July 2019, 4.30pm

Nexus - University of Leeds

Lijn discussed her work, influences and major new commission for the University of Leeds, with Leeds Art Gallery’s Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nigel Walsh.
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Fossil Twist, 2018/2019

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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Cosmic Sea I, 2019

Lijn's sculpture created from molten glass poured onto Vapourshield (stainless steel and mica), and set into epoxy resin.
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Magma Cuff (Gold), 2008/2019

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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Sunstar, Mount Wilson, 2018

Sunstar is a large-scale interactive solar installation in the landscape, co-created by Liliane Lijn and John Vallerga, 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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Antidote Box, 2018

A sculpture produced for the 3rd International Mykonos Bienniale, titled 'Trans Allegoria' curated by Lydia Venieri.
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Crystal Koan, 2018

Koan is a Japanese word for a paradoxical riddle given to young Buddhist monks as aids for meditation. They are a continuous theme in Lijn’s work.
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Tulip Mine, 2017

A limited edition print produced for the touring exhibition and portfolio Turkish Tulips by the House of Fairytales.
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