It’s not that material is the most important thing, that’s not true really, but as a way to try and explain it, I suppose sculpture is, at its best, or interests me the most, when it holds within itself the truth that the object is a fallacy. So in the material world, material is only ever flying together or flying apart, we know that. It’s just our little sort of limited human perception of time that makes us ever think that anything is an object, or is solid, or unchanging. So I was always trying and still am to get that truth in the work.

KARLA BLACK, in conversation with director of Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh Fiona Bradley 2021