Luke Burton refers to the ‘decorative turn’ in contemporary art and visual culture; he is interested in “the murky relationship between modernist abstraction and the decorative, and how we might consider it’s relationship to more classical, received and the more traditional languages of the decorative.” The exhibition will include a new body of work that develops the artist’s interest in how the decorative can be expressed through direct and subtle ways. Sculptures made from brass discs, clear acrylic bowls, floral fabric and tissue paper, described by the artist as ‘hanging baskets’, produce an interplay between modernist abstraction, domesticated craft and classical ornament. The artist’s work regularly pokes and probes at high and low visual languages and attitudes. Using the warm-glow and jewel-like characteristics of precious metals like bronze, he lures you towards abstract experiences of intensity; the emotional and cognitive, and their ebb and flow in relation to an artwork.