“This silver cast of the inner ear of a great whale contains a glass phial of water collected from the sea bed off the remote island of North Rona in the North Atlantic. Silver, whale and sea water somehow connect in place, history and preciousness and as a result of this work further sculpture has been spawned, not least ‘Porpoise’ part of the ’Evolution’ series. I am told that if you hold the silver inner ear to your own ear and listen very carefully you still can hear the sea.” Steve Dilworth

Dilworth often encases natural objects he has found within his sculptures. The solid remains of animals and birds, beautiful in their own right, impart an energy and life to his sculpture. Even when completely enclosed, like the heart in a living body or the engine in a static vehicle, they empower the sculpture in both conceptual and symbolic ways.

Dilworth says: 'I want to retrieve that moment of understanding, not by describing but by making. Of course I’ll fail, but in that chemistry of making another moment will appear. These objects are drawn from an internal landscape of shifting sands, connections are constantly being discovered.'