Robert Buick’s Sticks #1 combines a colourful fused-glass panel with an irregular framework of black steel rods. The tall rectangular glass element is filled with layered passages of yellow, red, turquoise, violet, white and black, giving the surface the appearance of an abstract collage suspended within the sculpture.

Around the glass, the steel rods project in different directions, crossing in front of the panel and extending outward at the base. Their dark, angular lines contrast with the softer shapes and luminous transparency of the glass, creating a strong tension between structure and colour.

The steel framework feels deliberately improvised, almost like a three-dimensional drawing built from scattered sticks. At the same time, it supports and frames the glass without becoming subordinate to it. The result is a lively mixed-media sculpture that balances transparency and solidity, colour and line, order and disorder.