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We are Time: Past and Future Works: at Canary Wharf.

A solo exhibition involving existing works shown for the first time in the UK, new works, models for future public projects and a new series of photographs (made with the photographer Heini Schneebeli). The exhibition was timed to coincide with the Olympics, focussing on references to classicism in my work, as well as references to popular culture.

The title is taken from my small bronze “We Are Time”, the large scale version (1985) is in The Sol le Witt collection at the Wadsworth Athenaeum. Canary Wharf has a well established reputation for bringing leading artists from all fields to a complex and challenging venue. This exhibition drew on works from the past which had never been exhibited in the UK before (the past) and models of sculptures for the future. Sculpture is an elusive endeavour; some projects easily realized, others almost bordering on the impossible. My research within sculptural practice has always been into the notion of space, location, and the temporality of these ideas; concepts which reflect my long standing interest and readings within Classical philosophy, particularly the pre Socratics. In this exhibition, I sought to place classical culture in a new and curious context, reflecting on how time, history and the sense of how we are, changes in an evolving world. A key part of the exhibition was a new body of photo works where existing bronze sculptures were located in The Grant Museum of Comparative Biology, and the Petrie Museum of Egyptology in UCL and are pictured. The exhibition included twenty-two works from 1982 to 2012.