Andrew Burton

Buttress is conceived as a vividly coloured architectural structure. As the name suggests, the sculpture is about buttressing – a structure that lend support to other structures. Buttress is formed from a rearrangement of bricks painted by Kitchener-based street artists: graffiti, often seen as being symptomatic of a dysfunctional cityscape becomes an integral ingredient to a structure that appears to lend stability to the existing architecture. Against the uniform colouring of the original brick building, the vibrant colours of Buttress create an exhilarating contrast.