Andrew Last

Andrew Last’s large light fittings and sculptural metalworks draw on the formal structures that exist in nature and are usually represented by diagrams and x-ray photographs. They recall the utopian art/science visions of the 1950s: physically light, perforated, modernist analyses of structures that because they are drawn from the rhetoric of ‘science’ are deemed to be ‘pure’, rational and coherent. His structures reflect ideas of reason and harmony. He works to “marry the cerebral with the tactile” and enjoys creating a productive dialogue between hand and machine processes.