"as she drew the works onto the plans of the Gallery and talking of what she was drawing--one enormous structure that engulfs the staircase, and seems to have spilled its guts down the stairs and into the lower gallery and even the cafe and bookshop -- she seemed to take possession of the building, altering my own understanding of it as I imagined it transformed. and then the works themselves come, in her words, 'elbowing their way' into the Gallery, filling it with their insistently material. presence, making new senes of it as they take up residence" (Fiona Bradley, Phyllida Barlow: Sculpture, 1963-2015 (Edinburgh: The Fruitmarket Gallery, 2015), 11-21.)