Brown is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculpture and wall drawings by London-based artist Lilah Fowler.

In Fowler’s work, ideas of retro-futuristic design and form, utopian architecture, science fiction, and parallel universes are explored through a series of geometric sculptures and wall drawings.

Fowler’s sculptures and wall drawings reflect her interest in experiential perspectives and illusions that question our definition of reality – illusions that present an alternative vision that could indicate other layers of space and time. In her stainless steel sculptures, the mirrored surfaces suggest positive and negative forms, both flat and multi-dimensional, depending on the angle of reflection. These permutations allow for illusory perspectives of other objects within the surrounding space: objects vanish, distort and reappear according to the viewer’s perspective. This notion of optical illusion is furthered in her series of geometric Space Frames and Rapid Forms. Made from powder-coated steel, Fowler’s floor-based Space Frames warp colour and form as the viewer walks around them. The perspective shifts and slips through seemingly impossible angles, and negative space becomes as much part of the sculpture as the lines that define it.

Her Rapid Forms play with similar ideas presented in Space Frames, but on a much smaller scale. Built from resin, these skeletal containers use colour and form to explore concepts of geometry and spatial dimension. Similarly, Hyperbolic Paraboloid, a large black sculpture constructed from polythene and fibre,follows the idea of an infinite surface in three dimensions with hyperbolic and parabolic cross-sections to create the saddle-shaped namesake.  

Stretching around the gallery’s floor, walls and ceiling is Fowler’s Wall Drawing #2,a layered repetition of a geometric pattern, using pen, dusty chalk line and tape. These lines and shapes create an alternating perspective, making it impossible to hold both 2 and 3-dimensional aspects together in one view.

Lilah Fowler was born in 1981 in London, England. She received her MA Sculpture in 2008 from the Royal College of Art, London, and her BA Sculpture in 2005 from the Edinburgh College of Art. The artist lives and works in London. This is her first exhibition with Brown.