One Hundred Days – Sketches in Marble

The idea behind the series was to produce a sculpture a day, for one hundred days, using the same material, marble. The plan was hatched in February 2009, and completed a year later after nine months of work.

One of the motives of the series was the prospect of exploring one hundred ideas in a short period of time. This was in deliberate contrast to a period of working on larger marble sculptures that took months to finish. The notion of a ‘sketch’ in marble is a new one, due to the availability of sophisticated power tools. These tools are a revelation in the respect that they allow exploration of ideas and forms relatively quickly.

By setting a boundary – restricting the time allowed for each piece, and therefore, the size of the work – I found a strange liberation. I soon realised that I couldn’t spend too long at the start of the day thinking, or designing, I had to get on.