Stone Carving & Sculpture Courses
Carving Stone at its place of origin
Courses booking now for beginners and all levels of skill carving freshly quarried stone in our open-air carving workshop in the heart of Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve and at the Drill Hall.
Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust is an arts, environmental and educational Charity that has regenerated of a former industrial landscape that gives in-depth access to art, culture, nature working with principles of environmental sustainability, providing inclusivity and accessibility for all, in an area of multiple deprivation and high needs.
Examples of Student Work
Projects
A champion of stone heritage and craftsmanship, the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust joins the Stone & Surfaces Show 2026 as an official partner. For details, click the banner.
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'Look to the Rock - Quarrymen's Stories'
Funded by Historic England Everyday Heritage - Celebrating Working Class Histories
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Memory Stones Green Corridor design & planning
Funded by National Lottery Community Fund - Together For Our Planet
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One Island - Many Visions
18 month research project involving 27 artists in a collaboration between Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust and The Royal Society of Sculptors.
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Living Land Archive Digitalizations
Activated by 3d Mapping Projections onto fragments of stone by visual artists working with Light Art Creatives, and Eva Titherigjton MEAD fellowship residency.
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Young Artisans Project (ongoing)
.The Trust provides professional training for young people to acquire new skills and progress into further training, employment and volunteering opportunities.
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The Armed Forces Covenant
PSQT skills training programme with Ben Smith Veteran Royal Engineers- First time carving a commemorative stone for Armistice day
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Green Skills in Stone Related Crafts
A skills training programme for 20 people for one month duration courses for economically in active people from the local community and wider Dorset area. Funded by Central Government via Dorset Council - UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
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The World Heritage Stone
This first stage of shaping this rock will celebrate the vision of Emeritus Professor Denys Brunsden, Geomorphologist, who led the successful bid to UNESCO for World Heritage status for East Devon and Dorset Jurrassic Coast.
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The Ocean Stone
A collaboration between Hannah Sofaer and Greenpeace to safeguard the ocean, contributing to the United Nations first Global Oceans Treaty signed by 28 states The collaboration included a large ammonite carving - as 'A Gift to Ancient Waters' to support life in a marine protected area
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The Wren Stone for Wren 300
Design and letter cutting by Paul Crabtree working with artists and stone masons Kirby Stansbridge and Matthew Jordan. Funded by The Worshipful Company of Masons & The Island and Royal Manor of Portland Court Leet.
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Saving The Arch
The Grade II listed arch has been gifted by The City of London Corporation and carefully deconstructed by Keltbray Construction and PAYE Stonework & Restoration Ltd, during the demolition of 81 Fleet Street, London.
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Entrance Feature for Community Fayre
Entrance feature for the yearly Portland Community Summer Fayre (Organised by S.A.L.T - Southwell Area Living Together)
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The Stone & Surfaces Show 2026
A champion of stone heritage and craftsmanship, the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust joins the Stone & Surfaces Show 2026 as an official partner.
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Stromatic Dance - The Dance Of Erosion
Christina Mcmannus - Funded by Lauchpad Grant from Portland & Weymouth - Towns Of Culture 2025 - Supported by Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust. Presentation - 3pm on 28th of September.
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The Stone Show 2025
PSQT Exhibition & Demonstrations - Supported by The Worshipful Company Of Masons
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Cobra Cafe & Atlantic Academy
Stone carving courses. funded by Historic England - Everyday Heritage Grants celebrating working class histories.
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Climate & The Land: Awaken, Stone!
Funded By Arts Council England Via Dorset Community Foundation - Queens Platinum Jubilee.
Residencies and Micro-Residencies
PSQT welcomes residencies develop, to undertake research and produce new work. Residencies allow for new research into the landscape and works across disciplines.
3D Modeling - Eddie Zhang
More from PSQT
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Create inspirational work with professional tuition - using freshly quarried stone - surrounded by the pure quality of natural light, rare butterflies, grasses and orchids.
Join us at our Stone Carving courses in the heart of Tout Quarry Sculpture Park and Nature Reserve at the Drill Hall Stone | Work | Space
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Through residencies, projects, workshops, and masterclasses that sow the seeds of collaborative research and participatory access as an agency of change, leading the way for challenging new work.
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An arts project that has grown from Portland's landscape, people and place, and saved Tout Quarry from further mineral extraction, continues to attract artists seeking interdisciplinary ways of working that unite the fields of arts, science and heritage. Revolutionary in its effect locally, nationally & globally in raising awareness of growing environmental concerns through access and engagement with the artists process and site specific work.
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PSQT’s ongoing interpretation of its Living Land Archive - a record of peoples working histories, the fossil record and ecology of changing environments - brings together a collective across disciplines within a platform for people to create change, with Portland as a microcosm of global environments, climate change and land use issues today.
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Through PSQT projects that unlock the creative potential and aspirations of young people. Creating gateways for people into landscape and nature, with interpretation, visitor experience, events and performances. Creation of new microclimates and habitats utilising our community partnerships and stewardship of the environment over 37 years.