Fisherman return at sunset past Pulpit Rock, Portland Bill

Fisherman return at sunset past Pulpit Rock, Portland Bill

Stormy skies over summer fields looking back to the Old Higher Lighthouse

Stormy skies over summer fields looking back to the Old Higher Lighthouse

Windsurfers blast along beautifully flat water in Portland Harbour

Windsurfers blast along beautifully flat water in Portland Harbour

Breathtaking land and seascapes can be found all across Portland

Breathtaking land and seascapes can be found all across Portland

The 18 miles of Chesil Beach stretch away into the distance

The 18 miles of Chesil Beach stretch away into the distance

Category Archives: Portland Sculpture

The Sculpture Hut 2012: officially open!

3 April 2012, 10:04

Sarah Gilpin

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I spent this morning delivering and posting the new season’s fliers for The Sculpture Hut: its a great time of year to get out and about and start something new.  The last week or so has been dazzling down at the Bill. This year I am adding Creative Wanderings to the Stone Sculpture - also as [...]

Moments in time – The MEMO project

13 February 2012, 09:54

Sarah Gilpin

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The MEMO project recently received planning permission from W&P Planning Committee for it’s ambitious global monument  ”conceived as a single spiral of stone, lined with images of the 860 species assessed as extinct since the dodo”.  Sited on the west cliffs of Portland overlooking Hallelujah Bay and Chesil Beach, MEMO will, in effect,  bring the 185 million [...]

Portland, A Direct Connection With Stone

9 January 2012, 12:30

Sarah Gilpin

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I emerge into the new year with a recommendation:  a book published by black dog publishing called STONE, which I was lucky enough to be given for christmas.  This is a truely beautiful book for any stone obsessed individual like myself.  Superb photographs of quarries, stone and stone workers from all over the world – [...]