Simon Liebrand’s works are all about people and their relationship to the environment. He skilfully plays with surprising combinations of archaic, naive forms and modern materials. His figures with overlong arms look like Stone Age people – and yet they are made of cement, the building material of modernity. The seated figures are roughly hewn from wood, as in early civilisations and primitive peoples. But the head sits gently swaying up and down on a steel spring, like a caricature of itself …
