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![Kyle Morland, Untitled (orange) (2013) | Steel and enamel, 117 x 100 x 50 cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/202934d622e70b434c4bfde107064e23508b001f11d27338760d545c29dd475e/Kyle-Morland--Untitled-orange--2013_01.jpg)
![Kyle Morland, Untitled (red) (2013) Steel and enamel, 90 x 200 x 12 cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4948e2ae3725111f5fb0da18b9330ac72e63cb0f61cc9c35aefc8bb0ca37eab/KYLE-MORLAND---K-FACTOR-VII_2.jpg)
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![Kyle Morland, Untitled (green) (2013) | Steel and enamel, 100 x 62 x 8 cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82f5a6c77e476f782774a439478ad2dbae8496db5b992bce2654af9d2ab0389d/KYLE-MORLAND---K-FACTOR-V_2.jpg)
![Kyle Morland, Untitled (blued 2) (2013) | Blued steel, 30 x 38 x 28 cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a375f4ba7ae2af31ed31137982c984cceb9c9182e94ae45d5656d8f0cd499fd/09ac2c_1cbfdafb88254b2e85156be6cc7bbebb.jpg)
![Kyle Morland, Untitled (blued 3) (2013) | Blued steel, 34 x 34 x 29 cm](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da61c9ff5d44715fc1cbe60eecb88ba10849523e33f5d6d389cf17b6738a2fa2/09ac2c_4a50738fb8894950916d3649f40b5977.jpg)
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.