JASON MULLIGAN - SCULPTOR

MATTER - A Contemporary Stone Sculpture Exhibition - 19–28 September 2026 (Free Entry)

Open daily - 11.30am - 6.30pm
Private View: Saturday 19 September, 6.00–9.00pm
The Crypt Gallery, London, NW1 2BA

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Artists: Jason Mulligan • Guy Stevens • Paul Vanstone 

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Stone is one of humanity’s oldest creative materials. It records geological time, preserves cultural memory, and carries the traces of every hand that has shaped it. MATTER brings together three distinguished British sculptors whose practices reveal the enduring expressive power of carved stone through distinctly contemporary voices.

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Presented within the atmospheric vaulted spaces of The Crypt Gallery, the exhibition explores the relationship between material, form and time. Each artist approaches stone differently—through abstraction, symbolism, archaeology, landscape and the human figure—yet all share an intimate understanding of the material’s history, resistance and quiet permanence.

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The exhibition invites visitors to experience sculpture not simply as object, but as presence works that embody weight, balance, touch and geological memory. From finely worked marble to rugged limestone, the exhibition demonstrates the remarkable breadth of contemporary stone carving in Britain today.

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Jason Mulligan’s sculptures draw from the language of archaeology, ancient artefacts and talismanic objects that evoke ritual without direct reference. Rooted in the material history of stone, these works carry the resonance of something unearthed rather than carved. Guy Stevens work gives rise to enigmatic stone beings—creatures that seem to hover between the archaic and the imagined. Playfully carved with a sensitivity to mass and presence. Paul Vanstone combines technical mastery with lyrical abstraction, allowing the inherent qualities of stone to guide elegant and fluid compositions. Rather than imposing form, he follows the internal logic of the block—its density, veining, and latent movement.

 

While each practice is unique, together they form a conversation about permanence in an increasingly transient world.

MATTER celebrates stone not as an historical medium, but as one that continues to evolve through contemporary artistic practice.

 

 

“Stone asks for patience. Every mark is irreversible, every decision considered. In an age of speed, carving remains an act of attention.”

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