STONE p r o j e c t 
MILESTONE: 1 – 30 August 2009
College quadrangle (entrance from Lady Lawson St)
Live stone carving art event at Edinburgh College of Art
OPEN: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-4pm (closed Mondays)
Free admission
RELATED EXHIBITION: 1 – 30 August 2009
OPEN: Monday - Thursday 10am - 6pm; Friday - Sunday 10am - 5pm; Free admission 
The Milestone carve forms part of the wider Stone project, a three-year eca research initiative, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, conceived and structured by sculptors Jake Harvey, Joel Fisher and filmmaker Noe Mendelle.
Milestone is a unique arts event for the Edinburgh Art Festival. Ten international sculptors will each carve a new sculpture in a 1 to 2 tonne block of stone in the Art College quadrangle. This event offers a rare opportunity to watch stone sculptors in the process of creating their work. Click here to watch a short film on Milestone produced by the EAF
In addition to Milestone, visitors can learn more about stone-carving practices all over the world from the accompanying exhibition of films, photographs, interviews, tools, books and sculptor’s maquettes assembled under the banner STONE project: ‘A Legacy of Craftsmanship and Inspiration for Art’. The exhibition’s content charts the journey of the STONE project researchers who spent sixteen months travelling the world investigating stone in its myriad forms. From the magnificent examples of quarrying earth’s matrix to the documented craft skills of stone artisans and toolmakers, these enlightening films and other collected data force a reassessment of how we think about ‘stone’ and the sculptors that work it.
The Milestone exhibition space will host a series of talks throughout August, including an introduction to the work of acclaimed sculptor Peter Randall-Page and a talk about ‘The Geology of Scotland’ by Andrew McMillan of the British Geological Survey. Click here to download the PDF file for the Talks Programme.
In addition to the talks programme, Edinburgh Art Festival are hosting the following events that take in Milestone:
Saturday 15 August: EAF Tour of 5 venues in the Art Festival, starting at Milestone at 10.30am (meet outside Hunter Building)
Sunday 16 August: EAF Children's Storytelling Tour of Milestone and Remembering Little Sparta starting at 2pm
Sunday 23 August: EAF Children's Storytelling Tour of Milestone and Postgraduate Degree Show starting at 2pm at Milestone carve.
Thursday 27 August: ART LATE at Milestone, featuring a one-off demo of a Blacksmiths workshop where three milestone sculptors will demonstrate the making of tools used for stone carving. 6-8pm.
The stone sculptors participating in Milestone are:
Joel Fisher, USA
Hayashi Takeshi, Japan
Jake Harvey, Scotland
Carlos Lizaraturry Moro, Spain
Gerard Mas, Spain
Atsuo Okamoto, Japan
Peter Randall Page, England
Sibylle Pasche, Switzerland
Daniel Silver, Israel
Susanne Specht, Germany
(the group will also include Jessica Harrison, Scotland, working as STONE project’s dedicated PhD student)
Click here to download short biographies for the Milestone sculptors, including images of their work.
STONE project is supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council
For more information about STONE, see the Research profile
