In 1914 the industrialist Henry Clay Frick had a classicist estate erected in the very heart of New York City - now fortunately turned into a museum. It still contains the, then assembled, magnificent period room. This hall is decorated with authentic wall-paintings made by the eighteenth century master Jean-Honoré Fragonard. There, in 2016 Evert Nijland encountered the theme for his new group of jewellery pieces. In one scene a frivolous, silk clad lady holds a headdress: a garland in which its structural framework is as much a defining feature as all the flowers it carries. Nijland felt that all his ideas fell into place; exactly, thát was how it was going to be! read more >>
Text by Ward Schrijver
(© Galerie Rob Koudijs)

EDUCATION
1990 / 1995 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, NL
1995 Bachelor Jewellery Department, GRA, Amsterdam, NL
1996 / 1997 Sandberg Instituut, GRA, Amsterdam, NL
1997 MA Applied Arts, Sandberg Instuut, GRA, Amsterdam, NL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS FROM THE LAST 5 YEARS
2019 Gallery Loupe, 'Cage', Montclair NJ, USA
2018 Galerie Rob Koudijs, 'Cage' Amsterdam, NL
2016 Gallery Loupe, 'Between Black and White', Montclair NJ, USA
2016 Coda Museum, Overview Exhibition 'Renewed Past', Apeldoorn, NL read more >>