In ‘Untitled’ Jonathan Owen has taken a pre-existing marble bust of a military figure and has created a dramatically distorted head, but left the torso untouched. Owen has carved the figure’s head into a cage with an intricate three-dimensional star pattern that echoes the medal on his lapel. A moveable marble sphere is trapped inside. In removing the facial features and not titling the work, he focuses attention on the physicality of the sculpture as an object rather than a biographical or allegorical statement. Owen is interested in how figures are immortalised through sculpture and photography and how his own actions question their place in history.