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WEARABLE WORKS<br />
OF ART<br />
Jeweller<br />
and sculptor Bibi Van<br />
Der Velden was born in New<br />
York, and had a peripatetic, artistic<br />
upbringing between The Netherlands<br />
and the English countryside. After training in<br />
sculpture at The Florence Academy of Arts,<br />
the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and<br />
The Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, she<br />
decided to turn her attention to creating art of<br />
the wearable variety, launching her jewellery<br />
line in 2006.<br />
Edgy and different are key words in her collections. She’s primarily a<br />
conceptual artist, and jewellery, or what she calls ‘wearable art’,<br />
is just one of the avenues she uses to explore new ideas.<br />
Her collections range from the weird and wonderful<br />
to the fantastical, and one of the most<br />
intriguing is Mammoth.<br />
“I believe real luxury is something powerful and compelling,<br />
something rare and special that isn’t ubiquitous. As a designer, I<br />
try to tell the story of my pieces.<br />
Bibi Van Der Velden<br />
BIBIVANDERVELDEN.MYSHOPIFY.COM<br />
94 <strong>#INSPO</strong> Issue 9 | <strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2017</strong>
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