Working with common mild steel, Kyle Morland created a new body of sculptures through mechanical deformation. Morland often creates the tools necessary to realise his ideas, and in this series he made a forming tool to bend specific widths of steel. This tool, while allowing easier metal formation, added a set of formal constraint to the creative process. These smaller free-standing works are made from the same length of steel with conjoined ends and twists turning them into single sided, single boundary objects. A second series of steel wall reliefs are painted in bright industry standard colours (indicative of the metal width profiles) on the wall-facing side, creating a subtle reflection of colour around each work. A large-scale free-standing steel sculpture completes the body of work.
Morland's sculptures exploit self-imposed creative constraints in an intuitive way that confirms his interest in Modernist Abstraction and the subtleties of implied space, physical and visual tension and absence.
Morland's sculptures exploit self-imposed creative constraints in an intuitive way that confirms his interest in Modernist Abstraction and the subtleties of implied space, physical and visual tension and absence.
