WORK OF THE WEEK: Alec Peever, To the Angel in the Stone (Poem by Eilean ni Chuilleanain), 1999

Alec Peever is a sculptor and letter-cutter based in Oxfordshire. Intricately carved by hand with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s poem, To the Angel in the Stone, this piece muses on the relationship between interior and exterior, broken and unbroken.

Peever has been commissioned to design and create numerous award-winning architectural pieces, monuments in churches and cathedrals, memorials and public installations. His work can be found in several private and public collections, including the National Collection of British Craft; St Paul’s Cathedral; Westminster Abbey; Oxford University; the Roald Dahl Foundation and the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Walk, London. Alec Peever works alongside his wife and fellow carver, Fiona Peever. Together the two run an award-winning and established letter cutting studio.

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (b. 1942) is an Irish poet and academic. She received her Bachelor’s in English and History, and her Master’s in English from University College Cork, and in 1981, Ní Chuilleanáin published her first collection of poems. Her collections of poetry have won numerous awards including the Patrick Kavanagh Prize, the O’Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry, the Séan O Riordain Award, and the Arts Council Prize for Poetry. She founded the literary review Cyphers with Leland Bardwell and Pearse Hutchinson, which she continues to edit. She is a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin and is a member of Aosdána, which is an association of Irish artists engaged in literature, music, and visual arts. She currently lives in Dublin.

Alec Peever
To the Angel in the Stone (Poem by Eilean ni Chuilleanain), 1999
York Stone
195.5 x 109 x 6.5 cm
6ft 4 ¾ x 3ft 7 x 2 ½ in.

£ 5,500 + VAT