Tadashi Kawamata is an artist who transforms our environment, he works in the midst of demolition and construction observing and highlighting socio-economic links between architectural construction and destruction. His site specific projects – made from reclaimed materials - have taken place all over the world and range from intimate transformations of a single house or apartment to the whole scale reconfiguration of towns.

Kawamata’s “maquettes” are in fact wall-based, three-dimensional works that do not necessarily relate directly to his site-specific projects but are works in their own right. They blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture, often protruding 20-30cm from the wall in undulating irregularity.

The artist’s signature bird nests and tree huts point to the possibility of reconstruction and protective shelter. In their raw materiality, these works invite us to re-evaluate and consider the fragility of our everyday built surroundings.