A personal show of art sculptures exhibited in the Sculpture Gallery at Bury Art Museum, Summer 2019. The exhibition brought together a body of sculptural work exploring the same preoccupations that drive the design practice — the line between figure and ground, the tension between opposing geometries, the moment where stability meets freedom.
The white sculptural pieces sit low against the herringbone parquet, their angular forms cutting and splitting — two planes meeting, diverging, one lifting away from the other. Seen against the Victorian grandeur of the gallery's columns and arches, there is the same dialogue between the existing and the intervention that runs through all the built work.
The cardboard study models — raw, direct, worked by hand — reveal the thinking process. Each one a small building waiting to be inhabited, or a sculpture that has outgrown its plinth. The boundary between architecture and art dissolves entirely.
Exhibition opening, Summer 2019
Photography: Maurice Shapero