In 2003, Peter Randall- Page was commissioned to create Seed from a piece of Cornish granite. Twenty years later, he has produced a limited edition of this iconic work using another material that is intrinsically linked to Cornwall’s mining history.


Seed was created from a 167-tonne piece of granite mined from De Lank quarry on Bodmin Moor. It was an unusual commission – a collaboration with Jolyon Brewis of Grimshaw Architects to create a sculpture for the centre of a building that didn’t yet exist. Based on the spiral phyllotaxis pattern – also known as the Fibonacci sequence – found in sunflower heads, shells and pinecones, amongst other objects throughout the natural world, Seed took Peter and his team more than four years to create. It was no small feat. When Peter


first saw the vast chunk of granite, he admits that he thought: ‘Oh my God, what have I done?’ But in 2007, flanked by 500 school children and watched by hundreds of people, the 70-tonne Seed was delicately lowered through the small gap at the top of the specially designed chamber into the recently completed Core Building here at Eden. Seed encompasses the simplicity,


beauty and fascination of the Fibonacci sequence; it stands as an unchanging monument to the ebb and flow of the building and the people who work in and visit the Core. ‘Seed has been a very, very


important piece in my career,’ says Peter Randall-Page. Enjoyed by millions, it is an optimistic piece of work that – like many of Peter’s artworks – celebrates


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