Sacred Objects for One Island Many Visions 2025
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One Island, Many Visions is a collaborative project featuring the work of 27 sculptors and is a partnership with members of the Royal Society of Sculptors and the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust. Both are located within Tout Quarry and in the Drill Hall. Over the last 18 months, each sculptor has created work that responds to this unique world heritage place, resulting in the exhibition, symposium, and community events running from 6th September to 31st October 2025.
Royal Society of Sculptors members have worked collaboratively with the PSQT Living Land Archive Project for the regeneration of quarry landscapes alongside members of the Portland community.
My work, ‘Sacred Objects’ for ‘One Island-Many Visions’, is also a creative response to a series of walks. The final part of the work was completed at Tout Quarry. Each walk explores the industrial archaeology, ecology, and movement of stone from the surrounding quarries at Tout.
The walk began on the west side of Portland (West weares) and Tout, continued through King Barrow Quarry, and concluded at the East Cliff side of Portland (East weares). Each walk was etched in real time onto three A3 copper plates. This unique record, engraved into its surface and formed from the surrounding rocks, engineering debris, and quarrying remnants, captures a moment in time. The resulting three etchings are presented as a limited-edition print series on display at the Drill Hall Gallery.
The etching plates were melted down and recast into three distinct copper chisels that reference the walk from which they both originate.
Royal Society of Sculptors members have worked collaboratively with the PSQT Living Land Archive Project for the regeneration of quarry landscapes alongside members of the Portland community.
My work, ‘Sacred Objects’ for ‘One Island-Many Visions’, is also a creative response to a series of walks. The final part of the work was completed at Tout Quarry. Each walk explores the industrial archaeology, ecology, and movement of stone from the surrounding quarries at Tout.
The walk began on the west side of Portland (West weares) and Tout, continued through King Barrow Quarry, and concluded at the East Cliff side of Portland (East weares). Each walk was etched in real time onto three A3 copper plates. This unique record, engraved into its surface and formed from the surrounding rocks, engineering debris, and quarrying remnants, captures a moment in time. The resulting three etchings are presented as a limited-edition print series on display at the Drill Hall Gallery.
The etching plates were melted down and recast into three distinct copper chisels that reference the walk from which they both originate.
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Print run of etchings from my walk around Tout and King Barrow quarries.
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Sacred Objects pattern in sand mould and ready for casting.
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ONE ISLAND - MANY VISIONS
Two Day Symposium 27/28 September 2025 The symposium as part of the ‘One Island – Many Visions’ exhibition aims to ask questions about art and landscape, landscape and environment, and how artwork sits within this both creatively, and scientifically bringing together an interdisciplinary model of artistic practice. Pertinent to this approach it will provoke discussions about sustainability and climate change. This collaboration between the Royal Society of Sculptors & PSQT Community Artists, co-curated by Dr Kate Parsons and Hannah Sofaer, respectively, encouraged the artists involved to create new work responding to the context of the local environment on Portland and Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve in particular; a 400 year old hand-worked quarry that the Trust saved from further mineral excavation. The speakers have been chosen for their specialist knowledge relating to scientific and creative research that spills over into the work on show. Some of these themes relate to life cycles, mortality, mapping the landscape and how this changes, loss of habitat, recycling and use of ethical materials, origins of the English landscape and the artistic and scientific legacy going forward. Speakers: Gill Hedley (Art Historian/ formerly British Council, Director Contemporary Art Society, London and currently Trustee for Art Monthly) Chris Drury (Site Specific artist) will talk about works made over the past 45 years. Bob Ford (Local Naturalist) ‘Wildlife of Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve’ Dr Clair Chinnery (Oxford Brookes University) Phoebe Cummings (Artist/Research Associate, University of Westminster) Hannah Sofaer (Artist & Creative Director of PSQT) David Buckland (Founder & Director of Cape Farewell) |
1SSUE 2025
I'm extremely pleased and delighted to say that my work and that of fellow artists of the 1ssue, have several artist books now in the collection of the historic Bodleian Library, Oxford.
I'm extremely pleased and delighted to say that my work and that of fellow artists of the 1ssue, have several artist books now in the collection of the historic Bodleian Library, Oxford.
'Heat' 2025
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RWA Biennial Open 2025: Paper Works Exhibition 25 Jan – 27 Apr 2025.
See my work 'Heat' and 'Horizon' and many other amazing works on paper.
Paper is the star of the show revealing itself in many different guises. Hand-made paper, different types of Japanese tissue, papier maché, and paper pulp are just some of the materials being used to create drawings paintings sculptures and architectural models. It is manipulated, burnt, cast, folded, walked on and torn. It is used for collage and all types of printmaking from lino to collograph, lithography, etching and woodcut.
If you love paper you will love this show and if you don’t know anything about it come with the RWA on a voyage of discovery.
See my work 'Heat' and 'Horizon' and many other amazing works on paper.
Paper is the star of the show revealing itself in many different guises. Hand-made paper, different types of Japanese tissue, papier maché, and paper pulp are just some of the materials being used to create drawings paintings sculptures and architectural models. It is manipulated, burnt, cast, folded, walked on and torn. It is used for collage and all types of printmaking from lino to collograph, lithography, etching and woodcut.
If you love paper you will love this show and if you don’t know anything about it come with the RWA on a voyage of discovery.
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Black Swan Arts Open Art Competition 2024
Exhibition 27 July to 15 September
Pleased to have my work 'Fathom' selected for one of the largest contemporary art exhibitions in the South West and is now on show at Black Swan Arts in Frome – the biennial Art Open.
This exhibition has been judged and curated by an extraordinary and committed team of art professionals, representing some of the country’s most progressive art institutions, under the leadership of curator Lucy Gundry.
Exhibition 27 July to 15 September
Pleased to have my work 'Fathom' selected for one of the largest contemporary art exhibitions in the South West and is now on show at Black Swan Arts in Frome – the biennial Art Open.
This exhibition has been judged and curated by an extraordinary and committed team of art professionals, representing some of the country’s most progressive art institutions, under the leadership of curator Lucy Gundry.
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Creative Journey's 2024
Pleased to have my work 'Tramline' (working title Resilience) commissioned for this exhibition In the EQ Building, Victoria Street, Bristol. The work is on show from the 18th of July through September 2024. The two images show a render proposal for a sculpture and the turned plaster forms that would make the cast column.
Art Consultants Art Acumen, Commissioning Body CEG, and Bristol City Council and APRB.
Creative Journey’s is a unique app-based public art program inviting locals and visitors to rediscover Bristol’s thriving business district. You are invited to take a journey through the eyes of twelve local artists as they showcase the small beautiful details of this thriving place, its intimate stories, and key historical events, as well as their reflections on resilience and wellbeing.
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Casting Shadows 2024
A showcase of exciting and diverse works created by selected members of the prestigious Royal Society of Sculptors. This exhibition is a celebration of contemporary sculptural practice in all its many forms. From stone carving and casting to ceramics and found objects, sculpture is arguably the most diverse artistic medium. This gives artists unrivaled freedom in materials, process, form, and scale and crosses boundaries between architecture, design, manufacturing, and craft. Sculpture is a constantly evolving art form that pervades our lives like no other. It addresses our most innate creative desires to bring something tangible into being. It is our way of understanding the past, our place in time, and a legacy to leave for future generations. Selected artists: Barbara Beyer, Rosalyn Burgin, Fiona Campbell, Martin Cody, Dallas Collins, Alice Cunningham, Deborah Duffin, Chris Dunseath, Jane Fox, Alice Freeman, Anna Gillespie, Nina Gronw-Lewis, Wen-Hsi Harman, Jane Jobling, Paul Juillerat, Seamus Moran, Susie Olczak, Kate Parsons, Mark Richards, Alice Sheppard-Fiddler, Christopher Summerfield, Jo Taylor, Nicola Turner, Patricia Volk, Tom Waugh, & Hamish Young |
The Wander_Land Exhibition 2023The 28 artists involved are members of the Royal Society of Sculptors. These artists came together during the pandemic, via Zoom, and who are based largely in the South West UK. This exhibition is Inspired by a pilgrimage route that passes through Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens and explores our relationship between landscape and wandering.
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