Frank Van den Broeck, draughtsman par excellence, gradually came to sculpture around 1998 through the scratches and nicks that were accidentally formed in the process of drawing. He perceived the nicks in the paper as incisions, making him aware of the possibility to explore the spatial and sculptural.
This resulted in small sculptures in clay in which the figuration gradually emerges, similar to his drawings in which forms and figures tend to reveal themselves gradually. In his earliest sculptures, the artist’s hand is often explicitly present as a claw or a fist that can transform into a face or a head. In 2015 the Centraal Museum Utrecht purchased several of his sculptures and, with support by the Mondriaan Fund, granted him the opportunity to further develop his spatial work.