Quarrymen

Hand-carved stone sculpture with integrated found object.

 

Quarrymen reflects the physical labour and human presence behind stone as a material referencing those who extracted and worked it long before it became architecture or sculpture.

 

The integration of a pick axe within the carved stone places tool and material in direct relationship acknowledging labour as inseparable from the material’s history.

 

The stone is carved by hand around the embedded tool emphasising weight, resistance and effort. Surface texture and visible tool marks remain, echoing the demanding, repetitive nature of quarry work and the physical traces left by human involvement.

 

Carved by hand and conceived as a singular work, Quarrymen is not part of a series.