Leonor Antunes is a Portuguese artist whose work Sequences, Inversions and Permutations is currently showing in St Luke’s church, Plymouth.

Antunes uses the physical building as an extension of her sculptures; they have been created specifically to exist in this space and it is clear that there is a dynamic tension between the two. Ropes, leather and Murano glass lighting hang from the ceiling, echoing the vertical lines of the columnar architectures, while metal netting mirrors the pattern on the floor, which she also designed along with the stained glass window. Knotted ropes provide a nod to Plymouth’s maritime identity and its historical ropemaking tradition. Each piece uses traditional materials in a nod to historic methods of production and as a foil to our ever-advancing digital world.

The overall result is serene and reverent, blurring the lines between art and architecture by using carefully chosen materials, movement, space, pattern, light and shadow to create interaction between the two.