My Body My Self, 1996

The finished work portrays simultaneously the physical body and the psyche. It is both fragmented and yet whole, layered and luminous. Its fragility and its aggressive power convey the tensions between the inner and the outer self.
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Music Children, 1996

Whether Lijn works with a poet’s words or her own text, she 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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Darker Me, 1995

Darker Me references to Eros and the instinctual drives so often suppressed in women. It is Liliane Lijn's first self portrait.
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Fierce Archetypes, 1988-1994

In the 1980’s Lijn’s work was imbued with mythological and archetypal images. Lijn was uncovering different and new aspects of the feminine which were greatly nourished by her interest in a large spectrum of materials and technical processes.
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Inner Light I, 1994

Having made Inner Light in 1993, a large public work in Reading in which light was virtually imprisoned in stone seeping through a thin gap, Lijn wanted to make a work in which light infused the stone.
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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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