Projects

Portland Stack
Caroline Saunders

One Island – Many Visions’ is a Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust collaboration with the Royal Society of Sculptors, involving 27 artists’ residencies, and research outcomes over 18 months, resulting in the exhibition, symposium and community events. Royal Society of Sculptors members have worked collaboratively with PSQT Living Land Archive Project for the regeneration of quarry landscapes alongside members of the Portland community. 

Location: Sculpture Park and Nature Reserve, Tout Quarry. https://what3words.com/ruin.scarecrow.composed Date: 6th September – 31st October 2025 Open Times: Open daily Free Admission

Portland Stack, Natural Stone, hand-carved 2025
Portland Stack speaks to the relationship between human intervention and the land, celebrating the unique character of local stone varieties while acknowledging the site’s industrial heritage. The sculptures capture the character of a place where industrial heritage and natural regeneration intersect.

Thank you to Arts Council England and the National Lottery for funding the Portland Stack series of sculptures, and for the kind support of Albian Stone, Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust and the Royal Society of Sculptors.

Flying Piano

Uncommon

Played & Remade

Played & Remade is an initiative to reduce waste within the piano industry, set up by The Piano Shop Bath. A sustainable solution for dealing with old instruments, their vision is to extend the life of old and loved instruments by changing their form and function. The resulting artworks are for sale at The Piano Shop Bath, 1&2 Canton Place, Bath BA1 6AA

The wolf image was found by looking at the street layout of the centre of Darmstadt so that the same walk can be made in the town by following certain streets. At no point on the wolf walk can the whole image be seen; this was inspired by the mysterious ancient Nasca Lines in South America depicting animal and abstract designs that can only be seen when viewed from the air. A group of students created the wolf costumes for local school children to wear. https://2010.waldkunst.com/kuenstler/caroline-saunders

Conker is a cast bronze sculpture on an oak base, commissioned by St.Leonards primary School in Exeter. The piece is tactile with a smooth concave side and a rough convex side, evoking the protective, nurturing case of the conker.

Recycle ‘Cowboys to Astronauts‘. The sculpture is made from wooden objects and furniture that I found at the Exeter rubbish dump. Designed in a circular form to resemble tumbleweed the original individual objects can still be visually puzzled out of the rotating mass. Recycled objects include a ladder, table, chairs and a broom.

The sculpture was inspired by a seminar on the importance of recycling held at the University of Exeter. The seminar lead to a touring exhibition organised by the University and Exeter’s Enviro Hub to promote the cycle economy. Additionally I organising family workshops at the Enviro Hub (a recycle centre) turning rubbish into new Planets. The sculpture was later moved to the reception hall at RILD within the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

https://www.facebook.com/From-Cowboys-to-Astronauts-652916974837565/

Little Red House, cast iron 2.4 meters high. Commissioned for Pirkkala Sculpture Park, Finland. Pirkkala is an industrial part of Finland so the iron relates to the traditional red houses around the lake as well as the local industry.https://www.pirkkala.fi/palvelut/kulttuuri/julkinen-taide/veistospuisto/

Pelican Gate, welded steel 100x530x5cm. Commissioned by Blackpool City Council for the pedestrian entrance to Blackpool Zoo. Steel rods manipulated to ‘draw’ the preening pelicans before welding in place. The gate was made while I lived at the zoo as artist in residence.

The Lion of Namibia, a land drawing commissioned by Exeter City Council as part of the Rugby World Cup. The image drawn on a hillside overlooking Exeter is an unusual ancient rock drawing of a lion discovered in Namibia. The project grew into a touring exhibition with public workshops led by Caroline Saunders.

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