Faye Toogood MBE is a British artist and designer whose work sits between functional object and sculpture. Her practice draws on the shapes and materials of the English countryside, from gnarled oaks to ancient standing stones, and it thrives on contrasts: soft and hard, practical and poetic, handmade and industrial.
In this talk she is joined by Alistair O'Neill, Professor of Fashion at Central Saint Martins, for a conversation about her work. Toogood often starts with humble materials such as cardboard and clay, testing and reworking a form before scaling it up towards abstraction, whether the result is a chair, a large installation or a piece of public art.
