use the constructional principles of architecture to reconsider the body in space and as space. Constructed from interlocking steel beams, they translate the body into an orthogonal matrix of x/y/z coordinates. They play on notions of presence and absence: voids have been deliberately left in the mass of the work to allow space to penetrate the body zone.

On the one hand, these works are logical and absolute, but equally, they evoke a sense of impermanence and vulnerability, leading one to question where the centre of gravity lies; what its load path may be and how its form coheres.

, the artist is interested in how the emotional valence of an object is determined by its point of rest.

, a crouching bodyform in the position of a spinario is proprioceptive: attending to its own being, but at the same time, precarious. By contrast, 

 is heroic and conveys a feeling of yearning in its desire to be connected to space at large. 

 are almost the reverse of each other: one is playful, whereas the other is mournful and struggling.

Big Beamers

, 2014, mild steel bar, 279 × 63 × 72 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Big Charge

, 2015, mild steel bar, 114 × 93 × 102 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Big Form

, 2015, mild steel bar, 81 × 82 × 135 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Big Hide

, 2015, mild steel bar, 216 × 90 × 117 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Big Skew

, 2016, mild steel bar, 281 × 81 × 48 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Big Pluck 2

, 2015, mild steel bar, 219 × 111 × 99 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Big Yield

, 2016, mild steel bar, 279 × 63 × 84 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Big Beamers

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