William Peers

Born in 1965, William Peers apprenticed himself to a stone-carver shortly after leaving Falmouth Art College. He was urged to work slowly, and entirely by hand rather than with machine tools. At first his work was largely figurative, and he pursued a path similar to earlier direct carvers, chief amongst them Eric Gill, but gradually his work became more and more abstract.

Unusually for an abstract sculptor, Peers’s work has until now been wall hung. Hanging flat against the wall, one is made to view his work from one angle rather than from all sides and, naturally, this lends a greater emphasis to the surface of the stone and to the delicate chisel-work rather than the overall shape. Peers has created his first major freestanding pieces especially for on form 08.