The former industrial building with its folded roof that is now the Modern Art space near City Road, London, has taken on the character of an exclusive Bond Street gallery with the first room having just four small works inserted like precious objects into the wall and the second room filled with standing cases each holding one individual item, as if a valuable and exclusive piece of jewellery.  These are not however expensive and rich items of jewellery but small deeply-coloured ceramics by Californian sculptor, musician and songwriter Ron Nagle (born 1939).

The small scale, sense of fun and intense colours in his work are influenced by Nagle’s early interest in ceramics and jewellery and the free Californian art, music and surfing culture in which he has lived.  Apparently, he owned a 1948 Ford Coupe to which he applied 40 coats of British racing green paint, sanding between each layer to achieve a rich deep colour, an interest which continues in his miniature ceramic sculptures, which are here are supported by drawings from his sketchbooks showing his ideas for the scultpures.