Detail of Brick Chair 2 by Michael Wainwright

It took ages, Michael reckons, just working out how all the bricks fit in to the space then mitring all turns, often compound mitres. The piece raise issues of class, housing but came from our attitudes to outside or outdoors and indoors, the false sense of protection one feels in a house with 5 lever locks yet a 4 millimetre sheet of glass just begs for a brick, the sense of protection is a false one. Here the outside is turned inside out, any potential intruder has already entered. An early working title was 'The honest art of burglary'