Bicknell-Knight opens exhibition centred on ambitious sculpture

British artist Bob Bicknell-Knight has opened Framework, an exhibition at Draakon Gallery centred on his largest, most labour-intensive and technically ambitious sculpture to date. The work is, in a sense, still being made, ERR reports.

Bicknell-Knight’s sculptures can evoke familiar objects such as an organ console, a wall clock or a chandelier. They might also look like architectural models, fragments removed from an unknown building or mysterious support structures whose purpose is unclear. Their forms suggest both sacred and industrial architecture, and could belong to a distant speculative past or a dystopian parallel future.

His work brings virtual and physical worlds together. Some objects draw on computer games and their visual language, where familiar things may have lost or changed their original purpose. A clock might no longer tell time, for example, or an object might exist only to make an imagined world seem more convincing. Transferred into the physical world, such objects gain a tangible presence without becoming easier to understand.

Time recurs throughout Bicknell-Knight’s work, through stopped clocks, burning candles and the appearance of wear. The exhibition also raises questions about control and function: what happens when an object no longer does what it is meant to do? The works leave their origins, purpose and place in time open to interpretation, as remnants of something lost, fragments of a future or objects from a world that never existed.

Bicknell-Knight, born in Ipswich in 1996, is a British artist and curator based in Tallinn. He works across sculpture, installation, painting, video and digital environments, exploring time, control and decay. He graduated from Chelsea College of Arts in London and is studying for a master’s degree in contemporary art at the Estonian Academy of Arts. The exhibition is curated by Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo and runs until December 6, 2026.