IT MAY surprise many visitors to Daniel Pasteiner’s first major UK solo show that the celestial structures in one of his works were made out of Brussels sprouts.

Yes – that Marmite of vegetables as crucial to a successful Christmas dinner as roast potatoes, turkey and a jug full of mouth-scalding gravy.

In the London-based artist’s Pathways to the Sun, stalks of the leafy green buds – painted red and blue – reach for the sky at angles, like a molecular structure.

“I just love the shape,” explains Pasteiner, 29, who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2007.

“They make spiralling double helixes and they look almost like planets. They have been covered in different materials, such as resins, but they still start to break down and change their form a bit so the work changes over time.”

In his work, exhibited at the A Foundation on Liverpool’s Greenland Street, from Friday, the artist aims to explore traditional notions of sculpture.

His pieces include projection as well as sound and light.

“I use typical sculpture systems like found objects and try to make them work in relationship like a complete environment,” he says. “They are still separate sculptures, rather than a single installation, but they create another world.”