These Monks are two iterations of a special commission for a major bookkeeping organisation.

Cast from a specially constructed multi-part mould, the Monks combine modern casting materials with traditional techniques to produce a detailed statue. You can even make out the pages of the book he's holding.

But why a monk? The inventor of accounting as we know it was a Florentine friar named Luca Pacioli, and it is in his honour that these awards take the shape of a monk.