Adrian Page

Adrian Page's Torus – Hidden and revealed was one of thirty-five finalist works in the McClelland sculpture survey & award in 2005, and takes the form of a large torus, commonly recognised as a doughnut shape, which is fabricated in stainless steel.

Using computational drawings and designs, Page fabricated 316 stainless steel components that run vertically, and are bolted together. The two-dimensional sheets formed a three-dimensional torus shape when curved and bolted in an upright position. The numbers laser cut onto each panel correlate to the alphabet and when decoded (by reading the numbers vertically, from top to bottom and moving around the torus, translate a passage from Revelations 21 in the King James Bible. The passage comments on building a peaceful and harmonious future.

As with many of his works, Torus – Hidden and revealed examines the relationship between structures in nature and structures in digital architecture, and how a digitally created form relates to a natural environment in-situ.

Page has said 'As with my other sculptures, this one references structural elements and processes found in both contemporary architecture and nature. Neither are 'hand-made' but rather 'grown' from some initial blueprint (or DNA).'