This has to be seen to be disbelieved! Walking between the reception area and the shop at the Old Fire Station one passes a small gallery space and at the moment it looks as if we are between exhibitions, so to speak, but no, there are two large blocks in there - one on the floor as if it were a bench and one standing on its end, like a column.
The artist says that 'these are formally simple sculptures' (there are large oblong things), made from 'ubiquitous, though often hidden, architectural materials' (wood and screws, I would guess)... he goes on to say that because they 'take their dimensions from the gallery space' (one is the length of the height of the ceiling and as thick as one of the walls, for instance), they suggest a 'middle ground between artwork and architecture' - well, this all seems like nonsense to me - why should we have to appreciate this space so much - it's just a little bit of leftover space that has little exhibitions in it.
We already understand the space enough not to bump into the walls, and the height of the ceiling - well it's pretty standard really - nothing special about it at all. We, the viewers of exhibitions, must appreciate things, it seems for this artist, in a more rarified way? There is nothing special about the geometry in this space, so why make such a fuss about it?
To me this was a waste of wood, and a waste of space.