Red Line Koan, 2007

Koan is a Japanese word for a paradoxical riddle given to young Buddhist monks as aids for meditation. Koans are a continuous theme in Lijn’s work.
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Fire Ice, 2007

Whether she works with a poet’s words or her own text, Lijn wants the words to float into the viewers mind in continually changing sequences. Meaning, like a river, is always in flux.
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Prism Ring 2006

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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Folded Ring, 2006

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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Liliane Lijn Selected Works 1959 – 1980

England & Co, London

May - June 2006

A retrospective exhibition curated by David Alan Mellor and accompanied by a publication inspired by Signals, the Signals Gallery catalogues and journal published in the 1960's.
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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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