series replaces an anatomically described body with one made of tightly nested and sharp-edged polygonal cells. This sculptural language derives from natural structures: the polycrystalline aggregation of basalt or quartz and the bubble matrices in foams and bone.

All matter has three states: gaseous, liquid and solid. I am trying to find this hinge between a fluid thing that's becoming solid, but also a bridge to the beholder's share in engaging with and interpreting these forms. Forms that purport to stand for the place of a body, and therefore have human characteristics, but are actually an aggregation, with geometrical precision, but aleatory. This means that as you walk around them, they come together in different ways, and hopefully, in coming together, constitute a different sort of object. They're mutable. Put another way: as you turn around the corner of the work, it triggers a different kind of emotional engagement.

 (2017) recall in their condensed forms an earlier series, 

 (1997–2005), which isolates the body's core and concentrates internal sensation. These fine webs or nets are made in fine stainless-steel bar: three-dimensional drawings that appear to tremble in space.

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, 2008, 2 mm square section stainless steel bar, 217 × 125 × 101 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Freeze

, 2011, 2 mm square section stainless steel bar, 78 × 68 × 64 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Abstract II

, 2011, 2 mm square section stainless steel bar, 24 × 205 × 60 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Fuse II

, 2011, 1.5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 35 × 197 × 46 cm. Installation view, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO studio.

Resort

, 2011, 1.5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 168 × 55 × 48 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Limn II

, 2012, 2 mm square section stainless steel bar, 235 × 170 × 125 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Freeze III

, 2017, 1.5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 188 × 46 × 35 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Bridge (Net)

, 2017, 1.5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 196 × 196 × 28 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Fix (Net)

, 2017, 1.5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 252 × 37 × 28 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Bolt (Net)

, 2017, 1.5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 190 × 53 × 24 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Core (Net)

, 2017, 1.5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 192 × 44 × 33 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Draft (Net)

, 2021, 1.5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 176 × 47.5 × 44.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co.

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