ELENI LINOU
Eleni Linou
Get Stuffed; Have you seen the price of food?
2025, brass, copper, garnet, enamel paint, 60 x 15mm, 400 mm chain length
Photography by Chris Bowes.
ARTIST STATEMENT
ELENI LINOU
This piece utilises movement to depict an olive being stuffed as 4 garnets slide down a rail inside the olive. The metals and materials are far from precious with brass and copper creating the structure and chain, although the iconography of food is often overlooked and in today’s economy the inflation of food is extreme.
So, I will pass it back to you. Have you seen the price of food?
PROFILE
Eleni Linou is a jewellery artist drawn to small, detailed processes, using skilled handwork to bring ideas to life. Discovering metalwork marked a turning point, offering a transformative way to shape flat material into intricate, meaningful forms. Her practice often incorporates hidden messages, sometimes embedded physically, other times revealed through form and movement, inviting curiosity and close looking. She is drawn to bold, statement pieces that feel powerful to wear. While continuing to refine her style, Eleni values jewellery for its uniqueness, connection to history and narrative, and the personal significance held within each piece.
