At the gallery off Old Street in London, on the fringe of the activities of Clerkenwell Design Week 2015, Modern Art is holding its third solo of the work of Paul Lee, the British artist who now lives in New York, entitled Nocturnal, seeing in the dark, a path of light that does not cross others.

Robert Raucshenberg is often cited as a precedent for Paul Lee’s work, as he too brought together a variety of objects with painting to explore the relationship between materials and their coded symbolism.  Paul Lee’s work at this exhibition, all in black and white against the white walls of the gallery are restrained, graphic and almost cartoon-like in character.   The wall sculptures are created from cut towels and washcloths, sewn together and coloured with black ink, then formed into forms that are reminiscent of building blocks, ladders, paving patterns, staircases and other shapes that encourage the viewer to imagine the symbolism they represent and their own relationship with them.