Francoise

Françoise van den Bosch graduated from the department of jewellery design at the Academy of Art, Arnhem in 1969. The solid and well-ordered nature of her work drew immediate attention. Shortly after she graduated, her work was chosen for an exhibition 'Objects to Wear by five Dutch Jewellery Designers', which first travelled around the Netherlands (beginning with the Van Abbemuseum) and then the US between 1969 and 1973. Her work was shown alongside that of Emmy van Leersum, Gijs Bakker, Nicolaas van Beek and Bernhard Lamérus as an example of innovative jewellery design. At 24-years of age she was the youngest of the exhibiters. Françoise was among the first jewellery designers, also internationally speaking, to take the step of making autonomous objects. Many of these objects, like her jewellery designs, comprise various components that can be slotted into each other. In her work the free objects and the jewellery are in a constant interplay with each other.