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9th May 20112011 QEST Scholarships awarded to two students in Historic CarvingTeresa Dybisz (2nd year Diploma, Stone Carving) and Richard Mossman (1st year, PG Diploma, Stone Carving) were amongst the recipient of the April 2011 Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) awards.
7th June 2010Andrew Graham Dixon meets his own gargoyle/grotesque at the School! Andrew Graham Dixon visits the School to see Alan Lamb's creation for the BBC's Culture Show.
28th March 2010British Museum talk with Alumna Jan Goodkin2009 Post Graduate Stone Carving Alumna Jan Goodkin will host a talk at the British Museum on how the British Museum’s collections inspired her to carve a statue of a Baboon.
4th November 2009New Miniature Portraits for Westminster AbbeyTwo second-year Post-Graduate Diploma students, James Kirby and John Ford, are involved in an interesting project at Westminster Abbey.
2nd November 2009Queen Anne's Summer HouseAlan Lamb, as Head of Historic Carving, and his students have carved new brackets for Queen Anne’s Summer House.
15th April 2009The Angel of Westminster - A collaboration between City & Guilds of London Art School and the House of LordsA few years ago, the Curator’s Office at the Houses of Parliament approached City & Guilds of London Art
School’s Conservation and Historic Carving Departments with a proposal to conserve and restore the figure
of an angel, once part of the sculptural decoration of Victoria Tower, as a student project. The result has been
an exciting challenge for both students and tutors alike and this exhibition showcases the work undertaken by
those who have been involved in this unique project.
26th March 20098feetUp ExhibitionA new permanent exhibition of emerging artists. Exhibition opening - Thursday, 2 April (from 18.00)
16th December 2008Studio VisitOn Tuesday, 16 December 2008, the Carving Department travelled to the studios of Fairhaven and Woods, in Cambridgeshire.
22nd November 2008Skills London 2008 ConferenceThe School's Carving Department attended the Skills London 2008 Conference on 20-22 November 2008.
12th November 2008Daphne Tengbergen's Saint John of the CrossDaphne Tengbergen started her two-year Post Graduate Stone Carving Diploma in September 2007.

4th November 2009

New Miniature Portraits for Westminster Abbey

Two second-year Post-Graduate Diploma students, James Kirby and John Ford, are involved in an interesting project at Westminster Abbey.

Whilst carrying out summer work at the Abbey for Nimbus Conservation, they were invited to work on two new portrait carvings (called label stops or head-stops) and located on the Chapter House.

The idea is to replace the original portraits with their contemporary equivalents, working within a medieval style while capturing their contemporary subjects. John is working on a portrait of Mr. Jim Vincent, current Head of Works at the Abbey while James is carving a portrait of Professor Warwick Rodwell, a Consultant Archaeologist. John and James first created clay models, working mainly from photographs and a brief sitting. Once approved they cut and fitted the blocks of Chilmark limestone (from Wiltshire) in situ before bringing these blocks to the Art School to begin the carving. It is hoped that the completed work will be fitted before the end of 2009. In the near future, 40 of these miniature portraits will be replaced by a number of carvers including one by Ivan Cudby, a tutor at City & Guilds of London Art School.