Current Projects

Primordial Soup

A celebration of the life and ideas of Charles Darwin, this project will explore the richness and diversity of evolution through the creation of a series of sculptures inspired by creatures from Earth’s distant past. Youth groups and members of the public will be given the opportunity to work with Clinton Chaloner and Cheryl Hughes at an open worksite in Shrewsbury’s Quarry Park. Two local schools will also work closely with the artists to develop their own designs for beings that might never have existed – or whose time is yet to come. The culmination of the project will be the installation of the sculptures close to the Welsh Bridge where they will be seen to emerge from the waters, evoking a scene from millions of years ago

Fallen Oak Sculpture

To mark Kew’s Year of the Tree the artist was invited to produce a series of sculptures investigating the inner workings of an oak tree. Consultation with Kew’s plant morphologists and close study of electron micrographs lead to the creation of six pieces that explore what we would see if we shrank to a height of less than one millimetre. At this scale the structures that make up the vascular system of a tree - xylem, phloem vessels, root hairs and stomata take on a strange beauty. The sculptures were carved into and sited around a massive wind-blown oak that was brought into the gardens for the exhibit.

Peckham Dinosaur