For the ‘Ensemble’ exhibition at the Scottish Gallery, Byrne moves in a new direction exploring the totem as a creative device for assembling ‘off cuts’ – glass parts that would normally be discarded during the making process in the workshop, collected and reassembled into exquisite
objects.

Byrne’s assemblages allow him to query the intrinsic nature of his own work by exploring the aesthetic parameters, structures and space between each component in an act of reflection and re-functioning.