WILLIAM PEERS | Solo Exhibition

WILLIAM PEERS

6 March – 2 April 2026

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William Peers studied at Falmouth Art College after which he was apprenticed to a stone-carver, Michael Black, who urged him to work slowly and entirely by hand. Peers worked in the marble quarries of Carrara, Italy, and later spent time in Corsica where he found a tranquil retreat to work and develop his ideas. His earliest carvings were figurative and followed the long history of English stone carving brought to prominence by Henry Moore and Eric Gill.

In recent years Peers has been investigating the movement of a line travelling in space like an air current, weightless and uninhibited. The result has been a series of sculptures with continuous loops, each one the journey of a slight volume through space.   

“Recently the relationship between positive and negative shapes has become an interest, and several larger works for the landscape have been interspersed with smaller more intimate sculptures. I have been exploring the three dimensional version of Paul Klee’s ‘Taking a line for a walk’. Removing most of the marble from a block is transformational as the focus is not only on the marble contours but the air that surrounds them. A conversation between matter and space.”

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