This sculpture is one from my current series of works, ‘Brutal Blocks’ which combine my interactions with The South Bank Centre with its distinct atmosphere and character. These modular blocks echo the Centre’s Cubist style building shapes which jut and sprout, their wonderful cast shadows forming whenever the sun puts in an appearance. 

I particularly admire Denys Lasdun’s Royal National Theatre reflecting his love of geometric landscapes and sculptural gestures with its ‘bold diagonal or horizontal shapes’. I have taken many photographs as I have walked its exterior spaces over the years.

The surfaces of my ‘blocks’ are screen printed with the shuttered concrete details taken from its exterior walls, the pop of red perspex forms a memory of a poster I glimpsed from one of my visits, whilst the yellow lends a nod to the archival colours used in the original  ‘South Bank Revived’ promotional materials.