Lincoln Austin’s abstract sculptures are visual conundrums, combining geometry, pattern, systems and repetition to generate optical illusions and effects. Bringing together the interests of Minimalism and Op Art, the interlocking steel-mesh forms of Interloper engage with the formality of mathematics, which Austin understands as a universal language.
 

Mathematics and pattern are two of those things that no one can claim ownership on, that we all share. There is language that crosses borders and boundaries; one of those is mathematics, and also art and music. That's the reason I do what I do. You can communicate on another level with people and you're not restricted by culture and language.

The touchstone, for me, of the success of a sculpture is that a person feels obliged to circumnavigate it. There's a physical experience attached to the process of looking; it's not just a passive observation. That's how I know whether the work is successful or not: watching people interact with it. If they're being static I've done something wrong, I haven't engaged them enough.

— Lincoln Austin, 2015