About
My name is Lisette Keyser (1991). I began my journey into jewellery over ten years ago at the Vakschool Schoonhoven, where I did a fulltime course to become a goldsmith. I later continued my studies in Product Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.
My Story
For the past three years, I have been running my practice, KEYSER, full-time. KEYSER is built on craftsmanship but does not shy away from experiment. Driven by curiosity I am constantly searching to broaden my knowledge of techniques and explore unfamiliar materials. Making my works a ecliectic playfull mix combining: lampwork with goldsmithing but also Macro photography and alternative ways of capturing and archive, finding inspiration in nature and city.
For nearly two years now, I have been based at the Schiehavenhallen. Before that, I moved through temporary, often mouldy and unheated spaces, places that were never meant to stay. Landing at the Schiehaven allowed my practice to settle and unfold. The atelier is still growing, shaped slowly through reinvesting, collecting tools, meeting people, exchanging knowledge.
About Jewellery
For me jewellery is more than craft, it is and artform directly in relation to the body. It holds weight beyond its precious materials. We mark love with it. We hold on to people through it. We treasure keepsakes, hold on to souvenirs, express our identity’s, tell stories pass on heritage and heirlooms. We melt, rework, carry fragments of memory forward. I don’t think there is any object that stand closer to the emotional and highly personal inner world than jewellery.
Working in jewellery means staying in touch to that intuitive, sometimes irrational place within, while paying close attention to the world around. The making process can be brut at times and demand extreme focus at other moments. Within there is chemistry, history, tradition and poetry. Learning craft is endless. For me craft is like a language that helps me understand, listnen and respond, it connects and you’ll be never done learning.
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