William Peers

William Peers was born in 1965. He studied sculpture at Falmouth College of Art and was later apprenticed to a sculptor in Oxford. He 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. In the 1990s Peers moved to Cornwall. He exhibited several times in London, mainly with the John Martin Gallery. There followed a period of fifteen years where he exclusively carved relief sculptures in Hornton stone. Gradually, the ‘figure’ disappeared from his work and his sculptures became more abstract. In 2007 he created a large series of work in Portuguese marble. The change of material had a dramatic effect on the style of his work. In 2008 Peers returned to free-standing sculptures. Peers’ most recent project was ‘100 Days: Sketched in Marble” a series where he carved a marble sculpture each day for one hundred days.