Denese Oates’ sculpture has for many years been inspired by biology, botany and the many intriguing forms nature creates. Still working with her favourite medium of copper, here she combines the botanical forms with ideas around the relationship between semaphores and leaves.

Leaves, with their fleeting natural beauty and their symbolic significance across cultures, have also provided artists with endless inspiration throughout the ages. They are the signs of the eternal cycles that shape the world.

Here she is treating leaves as nature’s semaphores, pointing the way, sharing news, heralding alarms, whispering secrets, gently pacifying or sometimes howling warnings. Perhaps they're humming sweet nothings or singing solutions and probably much more for those attuned to the natural world.