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Sculptures & Art

Commissioned metal artwork, from wall reliefs to freestanding installations.

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Someone has to actually make the artwork.

Commissioned metal artwork, from hand-beaten wall reliefs to freestanding installations built from hundreds of cut profiles.

Art commissions arrive in the least resolved form of anything we build: a maquette, a rendering, sometimes a sketch. Turning that into a physical object means deciding things the artist did not have to — how it stands up, how it is fixed, how it is transported, and how it will look in ten years.

We work in two directions. Digitally, by slicing a form into profiles that are laser-cut and assembled. And by hand, where a sheet is beaten, formed and chased into shape by a craftsman who can see the form developing.

Most of the pieces we are proudest of use both.

What this covers

Freestanding and site-specific sculpture
Wall reliefs and cast panels
Laser-cut profile-built forms
Hand-beaten and repoussé artwork
Suspended and ceiling installations
Decorative objects and one-off artefacts

A note from the workshop

From a maquette to a piece that stands

Sculpture in metal usually begins as something small — a clay maquette, a card model, a sketch — and the work is in the translation. A form that holds together at a hand’s height has to be made to hold together at three metres, carry its own weight, survive being handled during installation, and stand on a base that does not show.

The finish is where the artist’s intent lives, and it is agreed on a sample rather than described: a patina that is meant to keep changing, a hand-beaten surface where the marks are the point, a mirror polish that has to be flawless because the form is simple. What the piece is made of is often the least of the decisions.

In pictures

Sculptures & Art from the workshop

The gallery

Laser-cut steel figurative sculpture in a courtyard

Brass relief art panel depicting a peacock

Laser-cut steel sculpture of a car built from stacked profiles

Flock of brass birds mounted as an exterior sculpture

Polished copper wave sculpture mounted on a wall

Mirror-polished copper sculpture with a folded surface

Brass and copper leaf-and-stem sculptures

Laser-cut steel wall artwork depicting Shiva

Questions about sculptures & art

Can a sculpture be made from a small model?

That is the usual route. A maquette in clay, card or a 3D model is scaled up, and the work is in the translation: a form that holds itself at hand size has to carry its own weight at full size, survive installation, and stand on a base that does not show. The artist’s intent is protected by agreeing the finish on a sample rather than in words.

Will a patina on a sculpture keep changing?

Yes. A patina is colour grown in the metal, and it goes on developing — faster outdoors, where rain runs and hands touch. That is usually the point. If a fixed colour is wanted, the sculpture is either lacquered, which stops the change, or made in a metal and finish that does not move.