One Island – Many Visions

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.

Date: 6th September to 31st October 2025

The Anthropocene Epoch is an unofficial unit of geologic time, which describes the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems.

The Dorset coast is famous for its Jurassic fossils, and I have created a series of Anthropocene fossils which reflect the possible impact of humans on the fauna of the planet. They project dark, sobering visions of what the fossil record may say about the legacy of the human race in the distant future.

The title of this series is “Tales from the Anthropocene” and is inspired by my love of fossils and the carcass of a gannet which I once found on a beach with the blue nylon rope on which it had choked still sticking out of its beak. This actual skull forms the basis of one of the works. The fossils are set into casts of rocks from Tout Quarry and are cast in re-constituted Portland stone.