Irish-British artist Luke Alen-Buckley (b. 1987) received a BSc in Physics in 2014 before returning to his first love of sculpture. It was the discipline of physics that gave him a vital understanding of the structure of matter and how those things best sit in place and time. His preferred medium is 340 million-year-old Kilkenny marble and glacial erratic boulders. Speaking about his practice, Alen-Buckley says:
“Carving limestone by hand is an act of intimacy and resistance, a slow negotiation with matter.”
Alen-Buckley treats stone as an expressive partner, assiduously carving and polishing to reveal its mercurial, fluid surfaces beneath, embedded fossils, veins and new forms. His approach has developed through his works Memento Mori, Talisman, The Morrígan and Doors of Perception.
