Intrigued by the ways in which iron pyrite forms in natural aggregates, I began to experiment with off-set cubes to create body masses. The aim was to translate the volumes of the body into strict cubic frames or solids.

 have emerged from this process: standing forms – comprising unstable towers of orthogonal cubes that seem to be at the point of collapse, and bodies at rest – which have lost their orthogonality and are transformed into abstract matrices. The shift from strict grids into these jumbled abstractions was in part inspired by the pyrite crystal agglomerations.

I see the lying figures as a form of interrogation of human dependency on habitat. The standing sculptures form unsteady stacks. Blocks are incorporated at their base to exaggerate their precariousness, referencing Brancusi's interest in making the object's isolation from the floor part of a sculpture's structure.

Cube Works

, 2013, cast iron, 78 × 50 × 68 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Corner III

, 2013, cast iron, 42 × 200 × 45 cm. Installation view, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013. Photograph Allard Bovenberg.

Resort III

, 2013, cast iron, 40.5 × 102.5 × 67 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Mean II

, 2013, cast iron, 46 × 98 × 69 cm. Photograph Stephen White, London.

Mean

, 2013, cast iron, 36 × 210 × 84 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

, 2013, cast iron, 35 × 102 × 78 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Mean IV

, 2013, cast iron, 81 × 86 × 88 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Cotch X

, 2013, cast iron, 206 × 49 × 46 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Shrive XVII

, 2015, cast iron, 182 × 46.5 × 56 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Haft IV

, 2014, cast iron, 175 × 60 × 53.5 cm. Installation view, Forte di Belvedere, Florence, Italy, 2015. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

Clamp III

, 2014, cast iron, 75 × 48 × 61.5 cm. Installation view, Forte di Belvedere, Florence, Italy, 2015. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

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