yuko marchant
Mediums Used
Yuko Marchant is a highly skilled stone carver and sculptor expressing her sublime skill in a varity of Media but chiefly in stone, inspired by wild life around her using traditional skills.
Sculptures by yuko marchant
Credentials
Qualifications
9/2009 – 7/2010 Completed Level 3 Diploma in Stonemasonry-
Banker / Building Crafts College, London9/1997 – 7/2000 Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Fine Art,
Sculpture / Birmingham City University9/1996 – 7/1997 Completed Foundation Course in Art and Design
City and Guilds of London Art School4/1991 – 3/1993 Completed Display Design Course
Musashino Art University Junior College,Japan,9/2009 – 7/2010 Completed Level 3 Diploma in Stonemasonry-
Banker / Building Crafts College, London9/1997 – 7/2000 Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Fine Art,
Sculpture / Birmingham City University9/1996 – 7/1997 Completed Foundation Course in Art and Design
City and Guilds of London Art School4/1991 – 3/1993 Completed Display Design Course
Musashino Art University Junior College,Japan
CAREER HISTORY
9/2016 – present Freelance Stone carver, Stonemason
4/2015 – 6/2016 Gloucesrer Cathedral
Receiving part time training at the
Stonemason’s Workshop
9/2013 – 3/2015 Stonemason Maker in Residence, The Building
Crafts College
My duties include; logistics, general day to
day works running a busy stone department
5/2014 – 08/2014 Stone conservation work at West Hackney
Recreation Ground
Repairing headstones displayed against the
wall (mortar repair).
Repairing fractured headstones at right
angles to the broken edges.
4/2014 – 10/2014 Restoration Project at St Christopher’s
Church,Willingale in Essex
Producing two head carvings for label stop
and two crosses for the church building.
4/2011 – 1/2012 Motoi Architects Inc.,Japan
Assistant to architects;
research work for projects,Auto CAD
operation,made scaled models
2/2011 – 4/2011 Cliveden Conservation, Stone conservation
work on site
9/2010 – 12/2010 Carrek Limited, White Tower-Tower of London
Stone conservation work; pointing and fixing
random rubble wall.
7/2010 – 9/2010 Linford Group Ltd, 6 week placement for
restoration project;
Cutting stones, making mouldings, pointing
and fixing on site at Stowe House and in the
workshops in Lichfield.
11/2009 part-time) Assistant to sculptor, Nina
Bilbey
Shaping and surface finish on Portland stone
sculpture.
4/1993 – 4/1995 Assistant Set Designer,NHK TV Station,Japan
Helped to prepare props for TV set and
sketched storyboards for director.
I did restoration work for St Christopher’s Church in Willingale,Essex in 2014.
I made two head carvings for label stops at the church. These are replacement for the original carvings.
I researched period and styles of sculpture of King and Queen’s heads to collect and collate additional information to design the heads.
Made drawings, clay models and cast them in plaster.
Worked on the lime stones using plaster casts as a scaled model.
I also made 2 crosses /East Chancel Cross (590 x 800 x 210mm) and Nave Gable Cross (705 x 900 x 210mm) with integral socle, for the same church.
