Tim Macfarlane Reid is a West Australian sculptor who has been working and exhibiting for the past 11 years. Recently an exhibiting artist at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, this is his second solo exhibition at Gallows Gallery.

"Tim manages in the current work to evoke a serene stillness and balance not unlike those glimpses you get in the early morning of people in parks practicing Tai Chi. They are moving, but ever so slowly and with such a sense of determination to articulate the gesture perfectly. I think achieving that in a material like steel that as we know has more in common with the fabrication techniques of heavy industry than Chinese ink drawing is one of the strengths of Tim's sculpture.

What is unique though are the rhythms and sense of balance that is at the core of Tim's work. That and the shifting contours that activate each work visually when you change your viewing position.

Tim's work picks up on a sense of movement and on how contours can create multiple images and how parts, no matter how small, can come to stand for a different whole. His works create dynamic worlds that invite us in to complete the story. Worlds that change, as you move around them, and open up new ways of seeing both the figure and the land. "

Gary Dufour, Deputy Director Art Gallery of Western Australia