In the National Museum of Women in the Arts Exhibition Catalogue, the artist discusses the running of figures 'I feel that I shall go on to make many more nude figures, because in the 1970s the running man became for me a dominant theme, and this was not entirely a sensual approach to the male nude. These running figures had a certain symbolic character. Although I have said that my work has never been concerned with symbols, these sculptures represent a human condition or sensibility. They are not just men running in a landscape; they are fugitive also-either running away from something or running to something. These figures have a political element because I am preoccupied with the human rights situation in the world at this moment, and this preoccupation feeds itself or finds expression in my mankind sculptures. My sculptures are either mankind or men, and they alternate or come in quite separate phases' (E.Frink, op.cit, p.50)