The grandiose industrial architecture of the former Bass malthouse at The Maltings in Sleaford is more reminiscent of a church hall than of the machine shed that serviced the whole site. The space resonates with long since past activities, but does not reveal what they may have been. Barlow's sculptures used the sense of what may have been the remains of some fairground object, festivities, things stacked and left behind, reminders of former uses, actual and imagined.
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