Steven Gregory

Description

There are five of them - anthropomorphic paper bags cast in bronze and given different sets of legs. These insectile apparitions have amused, enthralled and have even made skin creep, as they are variously funny, intriguing and sinister.

Like circus clowns they emerge jauntily from the woodland, their bag bodies in attitudes of buffoonery, frolic and mischief. The sense of carnival is at once fun and a little scary in this bag parade.

As children, we all at some point put our heads in paper bags. To hide from the world and yet be part of it, with an assumed identity unlike our own, is as basic as learning to walk. Masks are as old as human ritual, they hide, alter and also protect - and so do paper bags.