EXHIBITION: 1 – 30 August 2009
OPEN: Monday - Thursday 10am - 6pm; Friday - Sunday 10am - 5pm; Free admission

The Milestone carve forms part of the wider Stone project, a three-year eca research initiative, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, conceived and structured by sculptors Jake Harvey, Joel Fisher and filmmaker Noe Mendelle.

Milestone is a unique arts event for the Edinburgh Art Festival. Ten international sculptors will each carve a new sculpture in a 1 to 2 tonne block of stone in the Art College quadrangle. This event offers a rare opportunity to watch stone sculptors in the process of creating their work.

In addition to Milestone, visitors can learn more about stone-carving practices all over the world from the accompanying exhibition of films, photographs, interviews, tools, books and sculptor’s maquettes assembled under the banner STONE project: ‘A Legacy of Craftsmanship and Inspiration for Art’. The exhibition’s content charts the journey of the STONE project researchers who spent sixteen months travelling the world investigating stone in its myriad forms. From the magnificent examples of quarrying earth’s matrix to the documented craft skills of stone artisans and toolmakers, these enlightening films and other collected data force a reassessment of how we think about ‘stone’ and the sculptors that work it.

The Milestone exhibition space will host a series of talks throughout August, including an introduction to the work of acclaimed sculptor Peter Randall-Page and a talk about ‘The Geology of Scotland’ by Andrew McMillan of the British Geological Survey. 

For more information see http://www.eca.ac.uk/1171/