Another example of the creative and insightful work on display during this year's One Island, Many Visions exhibition and symposium, Chris Summerfield’s inventive sculptures breathe new life into Portland Stone.

One of 27 artists from the Royal Society of Sculptors, who made work for the Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust event, Chris explored stone waste to create his own imagined fossil forms. A graduate of the Royal College of Arts and former assistant to Henry Moore , his work is essentially Biomorphic, and often hybridised with mechanical forms. At the core of his practice has been his lifelong response to the natural world and its relationship with human interventions and its stimuli for design, architecture and manufacturing. 

As opposed to seeking sizeable lumps of stone to carve into these beguiling, mutated forms, Chris chose to recycle remnants from a local community carving project, which he combined with Portland Cement to fill his fossil moulds.