Amika Tolen is an important figure in British conceptual art, whose practice attempts to define the conceptual and material framework of art. Since the 1970s, Tolen's work has focused on the relationship between form and content, object and representation, and the language of sculpture and painting. With a keen eye for the everyday and the neglected, as well as an interest in language and the interpretive process, he searches for materials in his studio, on the street and in antique markets. His work explores the extent to which the processes of art making and consumption can be compounded through reduction (destruction) and reconstruction. Trane's reductionist approach examines how artists can create works of profound intellectual rigor and prominence with minimal intervention. His work engages in poignant dialogues with various well-known international art movements such as Poverty Art, Minimalism, and Pop. Amika Torun addresses the fundamental nature of objects and images. He uses the materiality, function or form of things to re-present them in a way that "improves" or re-invents their original state. Language, meaning and interpretation are central to Toren's work.