In September 2025, PSQT will partner with a 27 artists from the Royal Society of Sculptors to curate an exhibition and symposium, showing new works in response to the landscape Isle of Portland.

‘One Island – Many Visions’ is a curated exhibition of research and site responses by 27 Royal Society of Sculptors (RSS) members in collaboration with Portland Sculpture Quarry Trust (PSQT). The exhibition runs from September to October 2025 including a symposium focusing on art and nature with contribution from David Buckland, Founder/Director of Cape Farewell project on Climate Change.

The partnership is led by artists Dr Kate Parsons (MRSS) and Hannah Sofaer MA (RCA), who has collected and recorded a ‘Living Land Archive’, of digital and physical materials of Portland’s landscape in continuous change. This has been a powerful resource for the participating artists’ work, contributing to the archival process and legacy of the environmental debate.

PSQT has an established track record of pioneering interdisciplinary site-specific work across the arts, earth sciences and heritage. Hannah Sofaer, Creative Director, said “there are many different materials and processes represented through the developing collaboration with people, landscape and place – it has been very exciting to see such a range of artists discovering new ways of working and furthering their practice as individuals brought together through a shared live and collective context.”

The title of the show reveals a years’ quest by international artists and emerging contemporary talents to explore the elemental landscape and features of a very unique island. The project has highlighted an exploration of the natural environment by collecting sounds at daybreak, mapping plants through the seasons at Winter and Summer equinoxes, the emergence of new fossils, an examination of soil from the gulleys, catching the suns golden rays at mid-winter on the stacked stone and mycelium as a new sustainable material.