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The exhibition centres around new Crumple sculptures, large-scale three-dimensional works made from massive sheets of crumpled metal welded together and then painted to create complex and enigmatic forms. The Crumple series dramatises the presence of force, scale and fragility, drawing attention to the simultaneous structural resilience and vulnerability of the work’s primary material, aluminium sheets.

Barry’s sculptures explore the relationship between destruction and preservation, force and form.The works were initially inspired by crumpled up paper, and then invisible “crumple zones” in …