Cecilia Moore's current work combines all the elements of her training in sculpture and metalwork to focus on "raising" an ancient, near-obsolete process of hammering a flat disc of metal to create hollow sculptural forms. It could perhaps be produced using mechanical means, but this slow, physically demanding technique becomes a ritual between the metal, hammer and maker and is the deliberate act of art-making that is central to this work. Pieces are formed from copper, bronze, copper-based alloys, silver and often incorporates found objects and used metal parts. Surfaces are textured by a variety of methods from etching, to engraving to hammering pieces on pitted welding tables. The forms and parts always seem to wander from their initial sketched design, before decisions can be pinned down and the parts fitted and soldered together, the colour patinas too evolve and change. This method of working intuitively is far slower, but as a result each piece is unique and a joy to make and own.

Talking about Balancing a Cityscape featured above, a piece made for Collect, Cecilia said: "As a child I visited Brighton Pavilion, it was the most amazing place I had ever seen, its Indian architecture mixed in with my mothers stories and artefacts of her life in India were full of colour and shapes that stayed with me and brought me to the colours and forms of this piece."

Each piece in the sculpture is made with between 4 to 7 metal parts that have been dismantled, adapted and soldered together. Parts include a lightbulb socket, a saxophone mouthpiece cap, parts of a cup, various lids, old coins and old plumbing bits. This piece is one of three new works the artist has made for Collect 2023.