About
Marcia Bennett-Male is a stone carver and letter engraver working primarily with limestone, sandstone and marble. Having originally studied fashion and textiles,
in 1994 she moved on to architectural stone carving and letter cutting at the City & Guilds of London Art School. In 2001 she was granted a QEST scholarship to study stone masonry at The Building Crafts College.
Working to commission, she has been involved in the restoration of churches and historic buildings, while her personal practice centres around carvings that take inspiration from all aspects of food, an interest that developed as a result of working in the culinary diverse district of Peckham, south-east London. “With my own sculptures, I use a lot of surplus and waste stone from other stone carvers and material salvaged from buildings that have been demolished,” she says. “I also use slate offcuts from a local fireplace company as well as imported Zimbabwean Springstone that I source in Brighton.”
At the Vintage Supermarket, Marcia will be presenting a stone carving of a sweetheart cabbage on a base carved from a single block of limestone, as well as a cauliflower hewn from a chalk boulder she brought back from the Cherry Hinton chalk pits near Cambridge. “I’m aways interested to see my work in a different context,” she says.
