David Begbie's sculptures are contemporary archetypal images using figurative physical forms made from steelmesh and stainless steel. Encapsulated within these forms are a series of relationships between male and female, masculinity and femininity, positive and negative, matter and antimatter, light and dark. Using strategic lighting to create supremely optical compositions of line and form, each transparent sculpture has a greater palpable presence than the space which it occupies. Begbie offers movement whenever there is any shift of light so much so that these pieces can sometimes have an interactive element.

A global audience has sat up and taken notice of his work and they can be seen in museum collections and public art installations, including the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna of Rome in Italy, Museum Beelden aan Zee in Holland, National Gallery of Canada, National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Southwark Bridge, London "Figure & Fountain", London "Heavenlybodies" (2001), Hotel Linde, Mariaworth Austria "Nuda" (2004).