About Conscious Sculpture
What is Conscious Sculpture?
Conscious Sculpture is an artistic practice that works with intention, visualisation, and creative imagination to cultivate inner peace and shape the emotional landscape of spaces and communities.
Unlike traditional sculpture that remains static once completed, Conscious Sculpture is living and dynamic. It exists as much in attention and imagination as in physical form, proposing that our focused attention and creative intention can influence ourselves, others, and the environments we inhabit.
The practice includes both contemplative tools for personal use and public performative expressions that bring this work into shared spaces as acts of peaceful engagement.
Origins
Conscious Sculpture emerged from nearly two decades of meditation practice and community-focused work in Manchester's Alexandra Park. Between 2007 and 2020, I founded Alexandra Arts and dedicated my practice to the park's regeneration, inspired by Joseph Beuys' concept of social sculpture.
What began as metta meditation gradually became a visualisation practice, shaping inner imagery into forms of protection, forgiveness, and care. Over time, I noticed subtle shifts in my relationships and surroundings, reinforcing my sense that intention has consequence. During the isolation of the pandemic years, this practice deepened in combination with somatic healing and breathing work. After lockdown, I began studying non-dual philosophy and felt a clear calling to share these tools
In 2024, witnessing young children create art influenced by global conflict, I developed Conscious Sculpture as a framework to be used in connection with the relaunch of the Art As Activism toolkit, now flown under the banner of Peace Movement Remix, honouring Manchester's heritage of both protest and creative expression.
[Read the full journey behind Conscious Sculpture]
The Practice
The Five Tools: For educational settings, I've developed five accessible practices designed with children as the primary audience: Ocean of Love, Peace Zones, Heart Radiance, Light Architecture, and Meta Sculpture. Each serves a different purpose, from cleansing emotional residue to creating protective spaces to radiating compassion.
[Explore the Five Tools in detail]
Energy Actions: Performative expressions that take Conscious Sculpture into public spaces through movement, sound, and participatory happenings, inspired by Dada's tradition of creative disruption.
Adaptability: The framework evolves depending on context, site, and community needs. What works for children in schools may take different forms in public art projects, site-specific residencies, or community engagement.
Current Work
Education: Through Form & Feel CIC, I'm developing pilot programs for schools and community groups, beginning at St. Mary's Primary School in Moss Side, Manchester.
Artistic Practice: I continue to explore how visualisation, intention, and creative action can shape both inner landscapes and shared spaces.
Research: The practice draws on diverse influences, including contemplative traditions, social sculpture, participatory art, and research from institutions like the HeartMath Institute.
Connect
If this practice resonates with you, whether as an educator, artist, collaborator, or someone seeking tools for inner peace, I invite you to get in touch.
Form & Feel CIC IG: [link]
Instagram: [link]
Conscious Sculpture: where art becomes an act of consciousness, and peace becomes a creative practice.