Re-authorship and Re-authorisation: The Gramme of Mastery, investigates the Apprentice Pillar of Rosslyn Chapel as an artefact, whose replication, displacement, and recasting have continually rewritten its authorship. The original 15th Century stone carving - laden with labour, and moral allegory was reinterpreted through Victorian industrial craft when Giovanni Franchi led production of its plaster replica for the V&A in 1871.

The cast transforms a sacred Scottish object into an imperial pedagogy of display, inscribing within it the politics of nationhood, craftsmanship, and appropriation. Through this lens, the project questions how repetition, reproduction and technical mastery act as both ethical and colonial gestures, blurring the lines between preservation and possession. The proposal seeks to re-enchant the act of casting as a moral and material dialogue between maker and matter, where to ‘recast’ is to inherit, reinterpret, and potentially resist the institutional authorship of history itself through intent experimentation and physical output acting as a continuation.