His artistic work may well be chipped (8)

I believe the answer is:

sculptor

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'his artistic work may well be chipped' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

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(Other definitions for sculptor that I've seen before include "Stone carver" , "Rodin or Behan" , "A carver of statues" , "Rodin, perhaps" , "Figure maker" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.

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