Faye Toogood

Faye Toogood MBE is a British artist and designer working at the boundary between functional object and sculpture. Born in 1977, she lives in Hampshire and works in London, and her practice is rooted in the shapes and materials of the English countryside, from gnarled oak trees to ancient standing stones.

Her work resists categorisation, driven by contradictions such as soft and hard, practical and poetic, handmade and industrial. Each project begins hands-on, with cardboard and clay used to test and rework form before it is scaled up to abstraction, whether the outcome is a chair, an installation or a piece of public art; the Roly Poly series, first shown in Milan in 2014, is among her best-known furniture families. She is represented by Friedman Benda.