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She say's : "By travelling you meet the world, the imagination and your work". She sometimes goes for months at a time in search of experience, which later may have an influence on her work. That work is often - but not always - making of jewellery. Her wooden hand and shoulder ornaments were selected for Ornamenta 1, the international event that was a meeting -place for contemporary developments in the artists jewellery world, 1989. For Rian de Jong, who graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, in 1985, it was a breakthrough. |
Her work stood out in the field of modern jewellery in the Netherlands because of her use of wood, a material whose characteristics she did not overwhelm but channelled and intensified. Rian de Jong processes many different materials into forms which may be carried in different ways on various parts of the body. She seeks the nature and meaning of both form and material. There is a tension between the surface and the form through juxtaposition of different materials. There is always a quest, the going, as in the journey. Her work is showed in galleries and collected by many museums, all over the world. |