With quiet elegance John Edgar’s work sits solemnly waiting to be warmed by human contact; just as the stone Edgar works in waits in locations all over the world waiting to be transformed by the artist.

John Edgar travels annually on prospecting tours, selecting the best specimens he can in India, Scotland and locally. He regularly works with Coromandel granite and common New Zealand greywacke river stones but more recently he has introduced Indian limestone. The work that has evolved from his most recent trip to India, Core, weighs 250 kilograms and shines with a soft, warm glow.

Edgar is never one to rest on his laurels and he has set himself a new challenge in this body of work by not only contrasting stones by inserting crosses and lines, mimicking mathematical symbols, but also working the contrasting stone down to differing levels. The degree of accuracy needed to achieve this is minute and the margin for error is negligible.

Stone sourced in Scotland is currently being worked by Edgar and will become part of a major exhibition scheduled to be mounted in Edinburgh in 2008.

John Edgar has been exhibiting his work in solo exhibitions since 1979 both in New Zealand and Australia as well as several group shows. Edgar has been included in several curated exhibitions, which have toured nation-wide, and is represented in several public and private collections in New Zealand, Australia and the United States.