Braddon Snape's raison d'être is to hold a mirror to society. His sculptural forms question our accepted norms, practices, and history. The work is enigmatic. Indeed, the artist himself is an enigma—on the one hand, the sculptures are robustly industrial, yet there is a highly refined quality in their finish and profound academic intent that extends deeply into the theoretical. The innate tension in the materiality of his sculpture is manifest in the juxtaposition of surface and form. The mirrored and patent surfaces are folded and crushed into shapes imbued by an interplay of inflation and restriction. The delicately balanced structures, anchored in space, are entirely abstract yet, somehow intensely literal in their referencing of the human condition. This element points us to the personal in Snape’s sculptures. He wants us to acknowledge the emotional challenges and toll taken by existing in an over-interconnected and entangled world. However, the works remain beautifully positive beacons of hope, helping to navigate a path through.