Events
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Stone Digital – Shaping a Sustainable Future will be hosted by professional broadcaster and sustainability commentator Susannah Streeter (BBC Breakfast News).
Exhibitors and visitors to Marmo+Mac in Verona this year chose this sculpture, called Teddy Boy, as the winner of the Icon Award. It will help promote the exhibition for the next five years.
'Stone Digital – Shaping a Sustainable Future' is a new, high-level online event exploring the way forward for the stone industry.
Europe's major annual international stone exhibition, Marmo+Mac, was back at its usual site in Verona this year after going online only last year.
The Lettering Arts Trust presents 'The Nereids: contemporary carvings and lettering artistry’ at Trinity House in London during Craft Week (4-10 October).
The Building Limes Forum Conference is being delivered online this year from Exeter Cathedral (pictured) but attendees can watch it from regional live meetings that will include a local tour and an optional evening dinner.
Photo: Tim Pestridge
If you are a Net Zero Hero you could be receiving £4,500 worth of prizes at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow on 2 November.
Photo: ©Wichien Tepsuttinun | Dreamstime.com
Stone Digital – Shaping a sustainable future. This is a major new high level online event to help map the future of the stone industry in the UK. It is being held 22-23 February 2022.
Jo Sweeting has carved some particularly poignant 'Empty Nests', depicting the nests of various birds that have become endangered. The one pictured here is 'Hawfinch'.
Xiamen Stone Fair was back live at the Xiamen exhibition centre this month (May), although it also had a spectacular array of online events for those who couldn't make the journey in person.
The 'on form' exhibition of garden sculpture and art, all in stone, returns to Asthall Manor from 2 May and for the rest of the month.
Alex Waddell’s Empty Barrels Rattle Loudest in Caen limestone in last year’s online Annual Exhibition of Stonemasonry & Stone Carving by Gallery Different in London. It is hoped this year’s exhibition will be back at the Fitzrovia Gallery.
Jim Rosenthall and his unseen partner, Alan Dedicote, hosted the online Natural Stone Awards, just as they have the live event for the past 15 years.
Entry is now open for the Grinling Gibbons tercentennary carving competition.
Log in to join the Stone Federation for the 20th Natural Stone Awards presentations.