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Paul Lewthwaite, Milton Keynes

Exhibition Preview. The Guardian Guide, 27th October 2007. p. 37.

Most British public sculpture falls neatly into one of three categories: nostalgic or sentimental figurative tableaux, highly derivative metal cast modernism, and spectacles. Amid this sorry state of affairs, the art of Paul Lewthwaite comes across as a subtle and sensitive response to the environs in which it is sited. Here he takes on the daunting yet distinctive characterlessness of Milton Keynes, hinting at the underlying structural make-up of the city, a blueprint from a long gone era of modernist social optimism.