Leonardo Drew: Number 360 at YSP

Leonardo Drew’s new work, Number 360 (2023), was commissioned for YSP’s 18th-century Chapel. It is a powerful reflection on the weight of collective experience, memory, and the cycles of life and death, decay and regeneration.
The basic material of Number 360 is plywood, either blackened or covered with textured coloured paint, which has been ripped apart and splintered to form the building blocks of a monolith reaching over five metres in height.