Peter Randall-Page 
Works available
Skin Deep
2007
Granite boulder
108 × 145 × 108 cm / 3ft6 1/2 × 4ft9 1/8 × 3ft6 1/2 ins
Biography
(1954–)
Randall-Page carves the most beautiful and regular of natural patterns on the surfaces of granite boulders and limestone, inspired by fossils and other natural objects. This creates sculptures that sit naturally in the landscape, or are placed within a wall or bank to become part of the landscape.
His new granite works, including Skin Deep, 2007, have developed out of the artist's interest in organic form and growth patterns in nature, and explore the dynamic tension between order and randomness. Working with naturally eroded glacial granite boulders, he carves the entire surface so that the geometrical patterns have to adapt to the natural bulges and facets of the stone.
Exhibitions include the Natural History Museum and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Recent commissions include an enormous granite sculpture, Seed, for the Educational Resource Centre (The Core) at the Eden Project; Give and Take in Newcastle, which won the 2006 Marsh Award for Public Sculpture; and Mind's Eye, a large ceramic wall-mounted piece for the Department of Psychology at Cardiff University (2006). Peter Randall-Page is represented in private and public collections including Tate and the British Museum.