The artist’s profile
After working as a freelance interior designer for many years, Liana needed a new creative challenge. With an innate love for jewellery and making things by hand, she attended a jewellery making course at Central Saint Martins and life drawing classes at Barnet College to build her portfolio, before finally studying jewellery design at Middlesex University under Caroline Broadhead. She graduated with First Class Honours in 2007.
For the past 17 years, she’s been working with enamel on chain, making pieces that echo her Greek and Cypriot roots. Her latest work focuses on turning unwanted gifts and damaged items into pieces of jewellery and ornaments. The flawed and unwanted objects are given a new identity as wearable pieces, granting them a lease of a new life, making them purposeful and desirable again.
Environmental Concerns
For the past 7 years, Liana has been working with broken and unwanted objects. By upcycling them, she transforms them into wearable pieces and decorative objects, whilst giving the original flawed and discarded pieces a unique new identity and function. The pieces created carry and preserve the memory of the beauty and sense of quality of the broken pieces, offering the original object a new identity and the opportunity to become purposeful and desirable again!
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Liana Pattihis, Cyprus – London, United Kingdom.
Education and Activities
2007 BA (Hons.) Jewellery design Middlesex University (Under the leadership of Caroline Broadhead)
2002 Part time Jewellery Design Course at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design
1982 Interior Design, North London Polytechnic
1980 Interior Design, Birmingham University, United Kingdom
1979 Foundation course in Art and Design, Birmingham Polytechnic, United Kingdom
A selection of my exhibitions and group exhibitions are; 2024 Invited Artist: Orizzonti d’Autore, Between Body and Soul, Civic Museum, Asolo. / 2024 AGC Punto24 travelling exhibition / 2024 ‘To be Human’, Represented by Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Quittenbaum Auction House, Munich / 2024 Collect, London, Represented by Objects Beautiful / 2024 Jelo6, Zappeio Megaro, Athens Greece / 2022 ‘Afternoon coffee with Liana’, Uni.Versus Gallery, Athens Greece / 2023 Roma Jewellery Week, Alternatives Gallery / 2023 Contemporania, Barcelona. / 2023 History of Revolutions, Ilias Lalaounis Museum, Athens, Greece. / 2023 Selected for Schmuck 2023 / 2023 Arte Y Joya Museum of Decorative Arts Madrid / 2023 Exhibition 09 Jan – 24 Feb Meanings and Messages. Goldsmiths Centre. / 2018 ‘To Mend my Broken Heart’, Platina Gallery Stockholm, Sweden / 2016 ‘Chained Interpretations’, as part of off Joya exhibitions, Barcelona Spain. / 2012 ‘Alysodeméno, Benaki Museum Pireos, Athens, Greece. / 2010 ‘Chained’, The Hellenic Centre, London, UK
Awards
2022 Awarded artist, Arte y Joya, Spain
2021 Shortlisted artist for Parte Prima (2020), Gioielli in Fermento, Italy
2016 Awarded artist at Joya Barcelona Jewellery Fair, Spain
2016 1st Prize Gioielli in Fermento, Italy
2014 1st Prize Gioielli in Fermento, Italy
2011 Awarded artist at Joya Barcelona Jewellery Fair, Spain
Public Collections
The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, Athens, permanent collection, Greece
Rhode Island State Design Museum, Providence, permanent collection, USA
Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) New York , permanent collection, USA
Fondazione Cominelli, Palazzo Cominelli, Italy
Torre Fornello Vineyards of Arts, Italy
Musée Espace Solidor de Cagnes-sur-mer as part of the Alliages Legacy Award & collection, France
Selected Publications
2023 Metal Smith magazine, ‘Hold me as I land’: I love it when we ’re cruising together by Matt Lambert
2023 Sacrés Outils , Published by Robert Mazlo Endowment Fund for Art and Contemporary Jewellery
2021 Crafts Magazine, Issue No. 288, May/June, Second Lives p92
2020 Alba Longa, Ludvig Rage Club 2019 The Art of Fine Enamelling Vol.2
2014 Art Jewelry Today Europe- Catherine Mallette, Schiffer Publishing Ltd, p166-169
2014 Art Aurea 1- 2014, Gold Special – Old Myths New Concepts p59
2012 Contemporary Jewelry, Limited Edition- Miquel Abellán, Monsa Publications Barcelona.
2011 Art Jewelry Today 3 – Jeffrey B. Snyder, Schiffer Publishing Ltd, p188-189
2010 Liana Pattihis case study for the Research Fellowship for Innovation in Vitreous Enamel Surfaces in Jewellery. Jessica
Turrell, Bristol, Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Affiliations
Member of British Society of Enamellers (B.S.O.E.), ACJ UK, AGC Italy, AJF US, SNAG, Crafts Council Directory,
Klimt02, Michelangelo Foundation listed in the Homo Faber Guide, recommended by the Benaki Museum