Front Row @ BBC Radio 4

1st December 2016

The City Sculpture Projects 1972 was a six-month initiative to bring contemporary sculpture to the streets of Britain's cities. Curator Dr Jon Wood, one of the original artists Liliane Lijn, and Professor Susan Tebby who worked on the project in Sheffield, look back at the concept.
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Power Game edition

November 2016

Power Game is a boxed limited edition of two games and an oracle. It comes in a numbered, signed and dated edition of 100. It is made up of the full set of 108 word cards that Liliane Lijn invented in 1970.
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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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Winning Words, 2014

Winning Words editions are based on Lijn’s Oracular Keys, a set of cards created in 1964 for the first staging of her Power Game performance, at the Royal College of Art
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Mountain Koans (Striped Koans), 2009/14

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. A koan is the Japanese word for a riddle given to novice Buddhist monks. Pondering the insoluble paradox is a path to a clear mind, a path up the mountain.
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Memory, 2014

In 1993, Lijn designed a series of carpets she called Words to Walk On, all using collaged and cut-up words. Meaning and pattern interweave and are altered by the direction from which the rug is approached or seen.
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Broadcast of Liliane Lijn’s Crossing Map on Resonance 104.4 FM 2011 / 2014

Liliane Lijn serialised her book Crossing Map for Resonance 104.4 FM. She performed live for 30 minutes starting at 1pm every Sunday from June 12th to July 3rd 2011 during the course of the exhibition Gone With The Wind at Raven Row. In 2014, Liliane Lijn read the entire 15 Songs of Crossing Map for Resonance 104.4 FM in collaboration with sound artist Sharon Gal.
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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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Magma Brooch, 2013

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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