Explored across various materials, scales and registers of display, the Perimeter Studies have been an integral aspect of Shawcross’ practice over the past decade. This new sequence of ten works, five structural and five solid, explores the geometry and the geometric properties of the platonic solids – the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the cube, the dodecahedron and the icosahedron.

The artist explains, ‘The radiant properties of these five solids are very much defined by the fact that they equally divide up the surface of a sphere. What we’ve done here is pushed and pulled and stretched these surfaces to form these crystalline geometric explorations. I think this is the first time I’ve shown an array of all five platonic solids together. They’ve been rendered here in weathered steel to form this very scientific shelf in which the geometries can be compared and contrasted, and defined against each other, like musical notes within a score. They gain their gravitas and their meaning through their juxtaposition with each other.’

Conrad Shawcross, RA, was born in 1977 in London, where he currently lives and works. Recent major exhibitions and commissions include Escalations, a recent solo exhibition held at  Chateau La Coste, Provence, France, where the artist’s monumental new permanent commission Schism (Château La Coste) is on view; Pioneering Places, a major public art work for Ramsgate Royal Harbour, UK; and an exhibition to mark the 800th anniversary of Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, UK. Shawcross will create a major new public artwork for the Crossrail Elizabeth line at Liverpool Street, London. Titled Manifold, the bronze sculpture will be positioned outside the Moorgate entrance of the new station when it opens in 2022.