Reverb

Reverb was built from sinuous linear forms responding to space, in an extensive range of materials. Ray Haydon’s open networks of line ran from colossal outdoor sculpture to intimately scaled works for the interior, at monumental and domestic scale alike.

Sculpture offers something a drawing can’t: multiple vantage points. That’s how these works behave — as drawings in space, open networks of abstract line to be walked around, made at every scale from the colossal to the intimate. The work has been likened to the large steel Abstract Expressionist pieces of David Smith.

By this show the forms had been curving and rounding for some time, more fluid than the harder-edged, angular work of earlier years. Reverb caught that shift.

The title work, Reverb, is a three-metre sculpture in marine-grade stainless steel, shown with the smaller Reverb I and Reflector III. Around them hung new ribbons in carbon fibre and timber veneer in the Velocity, Helix, Fluid and Manoeuvre series, and the Curlicue works pairing carbon fibre with bronze.