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...    The form of my sculpture is attentive receiver [Percolator] and earnest keeper [Supplier], using stone from the stone yard, from the vital quarries, in the Stone Island Portland. Masami AIHARA                                     ...
... New Ground behind Heights Hotel, Portland.  If you need to arrange Disabled Access to Tout Quarry by vehicle for the event, please contact us.    ...
3. Tout Quarry Map
(General/General)
Click to download  Tout Quarry Sculpture Park and Nature Reserve (word) Tout Quarry Sculptures Map  (word)
Portland Stone Carving Festival - Competition and Exhibition   Dates: May  -  5th, 6th, 7th   'Imagery, Mythology, Stories of the Four Winds'  June  -  2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th  'Portland's flora, ...
5. Participant Feedback
(Courses/Stone Carving Courses)
... Netherlands ' Its very good value and there are plenty of places to stay on Portland where accommodation is cheap.  Paul and Hannah helped find inexpensive accommodation for my wife and I.  While I carved ...
6. Trustees
(General/General)
Trustees of the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust Flor Kent (Became a trustee since 2001) Flor Kent was born in Venezuela. Flor has both a science and an art background and practices as both cosmetic ...
7. Flor Kent
(General/General)
... been a supporter of the Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust since 1997 and became a Trustee in 2001  in order to become more active in the Trust’s important remits of the arts, education,  regeneration, ...
8. Blythe's Work Experience
(General/General)
Blythe's Work Experience - Photography I am working with the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust as a work placement through my school, Royal Manor Arts College. My main assignments ...
9. Cristina Ferrandez Box
(General/Residencies)
... for Landscapes'.          Cristina Ferrandez – Box,  from Northern Spain completed a 3 month residency with Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust (PSQT)  at the Drill Hall Gallery and Stone Workshop ...
10. Links
(General/General)
Useful links: About Stone Albion Stone (Portland Stone Supplier) Cass Sculpture Foundation  Cristina Ferrandez - Box Jurassic Coast  - Dorset and East Devon World Heritage Site  Jurassic Coast ...
11. Community Stone Workspace
(News/Latest)
    Community Stone Workspace Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust exhibited at the Natural Stone Show in March 2011,  with work from its summer stone carving courses and launched the 'Community ...
12. Lulworth Castle Commission
(General/Commissions)
... butterfly emerging from Portland Stone. The stone is in the North East Tower of the Castle and every Sunday the ‘artist in residence’ will be offering visitors a unique opportunity to see the stone being ...
13. Current News
(General/General)
... butterfly emerging from Portland Stone. The stone is in the North East Tower of the Castle and every Sunday the ‘artist in residence’ will be offering visitors a unique opportunity to see the stone being ...
“LOOKING OUT FROM TOUT” A Seminar on the relationship between Art and Place Dates: Friday 30th July – Sunday 1st August 1993 Place: St Georges Centre, Reforne, Portland, Dorset Drawing on the experience ...
... structures of the different quarries on Portland. In quarries from Pietra Santa to Tamil Nadu the stones are traditionally rung to check the purity of the block. This also gives possibilities for a ...
... from PSQT. The project researched the application of acoustic properties of Portland stone, projection of images on the quarry rock face, interviews with quarry workers . Audio-visual recordings were made ...
... the future, with particular reference to the progress of the Quarry Park initiative for Portland. The formation of an arts/sciences local community 'think tank' has brought together a number of people ...
... and Weymouth & Portland area, and included Weymouth Youth Offending Team, Sherborne Learning Centre, Blandford Learning Centre and HM Youth Offending Institution Portland supported through the Princes ...
Yearly research into Portland's geology, providing interpretation and rescuing examples for the PSQT preservation archive including tree boles, sections of fossil trees, ripple bed limestone and sections ...
... environments for learning, visitor interpretation and leisure. An induction given by PSQT included a background to Portland, covering its cultural, social, geological and ecological aspects. PSQT provided ...
21. Projects
(General/General)
PSQT Stone Lithophone Project with Evelyn Glennie - a Cultural Olympics Project for Portland PSQT is leading a project during the Cultural Olympiad 2009-2012 to build a stone lithophone for percussionist ...
22. The Modes of Al-Ikseer
(General/General)
... featuring the classic Depeche Mode track 'Personal Jesus'. The performance at The Drill Hall, Portland on Friday 5th March 2010 was facilitated by Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust www.learningstone.org ...
23. University of Brighton
(General/General)
...  Alexis Van El investigated the internal structure of fossils and stone found within the Portland Strata through stereoscopic photographs. Simone Clark, Visual performance artist explored a cross-disciplinary ...
Posted by Trish (19 Nov 2009) Fantastic project, excellent for the community in so many ways and of real value to people on Portland and beyond. You have my vote. Posted by lindapebody ...
25. People's Millions
(News/Latest)
'Portland's Living Quarry' was a finalist selected for the Big Lottery Fund's 'The People's Millions' in 2009. Thank you to everyone who voted for the project. We didn't make it this time but we are applying ...
26. SANDS Memorial Sculpture
(General/Commissions)
... based on the Sands Logo based on a child in the centre of an eye with a tear drop. The design that we produced was centred on a carving in Portland stone, from Independent Quarry, of a newly born child ...
27. About PSQT
(General/General)
Vision: To create a sustainable environment that enriches everyone that comes into contact with it through promoting and developing the PSQT sustainability model in Portland and at regional, national ...
The major outcome of the research was the 'KYMA' exhibition at the Learningstone Gallery (Drill Hall) on Portland that opened on the 2nd of September 2006 for one month.  The gallery space was ...
29. Simone Clark
(General/Residencies)
... Learningstone Centre in July 2004, bringing parents and community to share the story of Portland stone, looking through time, to the past and into the future. ...
"Very informative, beautifully presented, a great project to tell the world about Portland: history, art, technology, geological wonder and humanity!" "Brilliant. A most important exhibition indicating ...
31. PSQT History
(General/General)
... of freshly quarried Portland stone. 'Portland stone was described by Nicholas Pvsner as the finest of carving stones, '.....soft enough to carve, yet extremely durable'. Working with stone in the quarry ...
32. Media Coverage
(Courses/Stone Carving Courses)
General PSQT at the Natural Stone Show 2011 Giving Back to Portland, Dorset Life, May 2009 Open Country, BBC Radio 4, 7 February 2009 Portland Quarry Trust Up for Award, Dorset Echo, 29 January ...
33. Residencies
(General/Residencies)
... the history, politics, geology, geography, ecology, meteorology and astronomy associated with the Portland landscape and integrate the role of art into quarry regeneration in a ‘hands-on’ way.  ...
34. Commissions
(General/Commissions)
With 26 years experience in carving Portland Stone the PSQT is available for public and private commissions and has undertaken work across the UK and internationally. Our experienced carvers work with ...
35. PSQT wins BURA Award
(News/Latest)
The Panel’s View Portland is a unique and thrilling example of an area using its industrial heritage to build community pride through art, culture, education and regeneration. The sense of purpose, community ...
36. Seeing Through Stone
(General/Exhibition)
4 July – 30 November 2009 A GIANT aerial view of Portland will be beamed down on the floor for a fascinating exhibition on the history of stone running throughout the summer in the Drill Hall. The ...
37. Map and Directions.
(General/General)
Here is a Map of the location of the Drill Hall, Easton Lane Portland DT5 1BW. Click here if you want directions.  ...
38. Accommodation for Course participants
(Courses/Stone Carving Courses)
It's not difficult to find a nice place to stay on Portland, but it's good to book early.  PSQT offers self catering accommodation for course participants - for further details call 01305 826736 or contact ...
39. Four week Stone Carving Course
(Courses/Stone Carving Courses)
What a great experience - 4 whole weeks carving in beautiful Portland. The program includes the same curriculum as our one week Workshop, plus further developing work through direct carving, detailed work ...
40. One week Stone Carving Course
(Courses/Stone Carving Courses)
... and stone working histories of the Isle of Portland. Demonstration of stonecarving techniques and use of tools in sculpture, masonry, architectural carving and letter cutting. Selection of stone appropriate ...
... form. The pure clean quality of air, with no land between Portland and Sounth America, and no pollution, creates a clarity of light that helps to define the form as the sculpture emerges.    ...
... is a selection of freshly quarried Portland stone, the finest of carving stones, soft enough to carve, yet extremely durable. Working with stone in the quarry, where the air is very pure and clean, inspires ...
43. Circle of Stones Portland
(News/Rotator)
A group of Dutch artists will be returning to Portland for their 8th year to carve large stone sculptures between 26 August and 6 September 2009.   Collectively known as Groep 85, the artists will ...
SEEING THROUGH STONE Portland Sculpture Quarry Trust (PSQT) is presenting a multimedia exhibition at the Drill Hall, it links the Island’s geology, ecology and people – to create a unique picture of a ...
PSQT has established an international venue for art in the environment and sculpture in stone. We run yearly stone carving workshops in Tout Quarry, and since 1983 have hosted permanent and temporary works ...
47. Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust
(Contact / Contacts)
Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust, Position, Carving Stone in its place of origin. ...