Natalie Dray @ Blain Southern

In this final exhibition, Kierkegaardashian, of the Lodger series, the British artist Natalie Dray created a new series of sculptures, which flicker between rigidity and suppleness, the inorganic and the organic, geometric order and the messy chaos of living things. Here, metal armatures – great dented grids, and what might be a modular shelving system – have become overgrown with delicate foliage, hand cast in steel and pewter alloys using a ‘home-grown’ technique of the artist’s own invention. On close inspection, these fronds are composites, created from grafting the ragged leaves of one plant onto the thorny stems of another, in what appears to be a low-fi form of genetic engineering, or perhaps cosmetic surgery.