JASON MULLIGAN - SCULPTOR
Excavation Series
Excavation Series is an ongoing body of sculptural work presented as the material remains of a fictional archaeological dig. The sculptures take the form of museum-like artefacts, each carved exclusively from Bethersden Marble, a stone native to Kent.
Some objects bear edges, points or percussion surfaces, suggesting tools or implements once used for survival or ritual. Others resemble amulets, votives or idols, proposing the fragmentary material culture of a lost civilisation. Their function remains uncertain, suspended between use and belief.
Bethersden Marble is not a true marble but a fossil-rich freshwater limestone formed during the Lower Cretaceous period, approximately 100–145 million years ago. Quarried locally in Kent until the 19th century, the stone is now exhausted, its legacy surviving in historic buildings and now fragments uncovered only through agricultural farming.
By working with this Kentish material, the Excavation Series connects speculative archaeology with real geology, grounding imagined histories in the deep time and landscape of the region.
Bethersden Marble 30cm x 21cm x 11cm Available £850
Bethersden Marble 43cm x14cm x10cm Available £850
Bethersden Marble 33cm x 14cm x 10cm Available £850
Bethersden Marble 15cm x 14cm x 14cm £550
Bethersden Marble 22cm x 20cm x 9cm Available £850
Bethersden Marble 26cm x 16cm x 13cm Available £850
Bethersden Marble 25cm x 22cm x 14cm Available £850
Bethersden Marble 22cm x 13cm x 13cm Available £400
Bethersden Marble 27cm x 15cm x 8cm £550
Bethersden Marble 36cm x 14cm x 9cm Available
Bethersden Marble 15cm x 19cm x 6cm £450
Bethersden Marble 27cm x 22x 12 cm Available £850