Peter Heesch

Peter Heesch's sculptures emerge in a continuous dialogue with the material. He works on both wood and stone using a reductive process: the original form, structure, colour and traces of weathering show the way, while the final shape emerges through targeted removal. Natural intergrowths and injuries are not concealed but remain visible as traces of the past, like scars on a body. Roughly left areas meet rounded, carefully polished surfaces and make the relationship between inside and outside, concealing and revealing, experiential. Natural forms such as spirals, seeds, pods or clouds often serve as the starting point, without fixing perception to a single interpretation. At the same time, movement is a central theme: the forms seem to dance, stretch, leap or hover in space.