For Liz Frolich, sculpture is a means of travelling through time and space to map both personal and universal experience. Earliest memories and travels inform her work: myths, legends, the strange and mysterious in nature are the inspiration.

The collection of objects and materials acquired over the years are precious to Liz, her travelling companions on a journey through life. They lie in wait, ready to trigger a process of development, media suggesting ideas and ideas media. They are taken to pieces, destroyed, aged, reworked and restored to reveal evidence of a former glory, beauty or function.

The exact meaning of purpose of these objects may elude us but there is often the sense of something half remembered, a glimpse of a time or place that can still be perceived through the obscuring layers of time and decay. We may recognise elements but can’t quite place them, a memory we cannot bring to the conscious mind.

In a process that echoes that of the archaeologist and the collector of curios, these finds and trappings suggest a long, perhaps, arduous journey in the exploration of distant territories.

What are we looking at? Where were these objects found? Were they snatched from the air, found on a mountain top or retrieved from the sea? They come together to tell a story and create a Wunderkammern – a collection of wonders.