The Shared

Leathermarket Community Sculpture Project

The Shared

The Shared is a direct product of 40 hours of free, open workshops which were led in Bermondsey by Austin Emery during October 2012; here members of the local community used professional carving tools to create their own artwork from their chosen piece of stone. The resulting mass of mismatched sculptures have now been pieced together by the artist, who has added his own sculptural riffs and animal habitats but – taking on something of a purist approach - has refrained from polishing out accidental chisel marks or erasing pencil lines that mark the original public artworks.

“The beauty is in the rawness of the differences between people” Emery has said. Accordingly, The Shared is comparable to a crowd, neighbourhood or city: an energetic mishmash of flaws, clashes and harmonies that must tolerate one another to form a single entity.

Transmorfism Sculpture Projects

Transmorfism Sculpture Projects

Stone Carving Workshops & Open-air Exhibition

Tanner Street Park, June/July 2015

Guy Street Park, June/July 2016

By bringing together people from all backgrounds and corners of our community, this expression was realised with every chisel chop, cut and mark made, and with each moment spent together sharing this labourious and enjoyable explorational process, both physical and social elements of change are evident within this work.