Transformations 2: A Clump of Plinths at The Lowry until 6th September

Award-winning artist Sarah Staton unveils a new series of sculptures in The Lowry's Promenade Gallery.

Over the last five years, Sarah Staton has built a reputation as one of the UK's freshest and most innovative new artists. Bringing together inspiration from the worlds of fashion, architecture and design, her work has been shown in New York, Vienna and Berlin and won her both a research fellowship with the Henry Moore Institute and an Arts Foundation Award.

Now The Lowry is hosting an extraordinary new work by the artist as part of their Transformations commission. A Clump of Plinths takes the viewer on a journey across the architecture of the Pacific Rim through a series of purpose-made sculptures.

Beginning with a series of patterned concrete blocks evoking Japan's architecture and moving through groupings of striking sculptures, padded paintings made from vintage fabrics, representations of skyscrapers and a small-scale architectural replica of Hollywood, the exhibition takes place against the views afforded by the Lowry's Promenade Gallery across Salford. The interplay between these reimagined buildings and the combination of Salford's luxury waterfront flats, dilapidated shopping centres, tower blocks and the rising foundations of Mediacity:UK ask provocative questions about the natures of architecture, stability, society and heritage.