Faye Toogood

Faye Toogood is a British artist and designer whose work moves fluidly between sculp­ture, furni­ture, fashion, and table­ware. Known for her mate­r­ial exper­i­men­ta­tion and sculp­tural sensi­bil­ity, Toogood creates objects that blur the bound­aries between art and design, often balanc­ing raw tactil­ity with unex­pected refine­ment. Her table­top Dough series, exem­pli­fies this approach. The collec­tion trans­forms every­day table­ware into some­thing at once famil­iar and uncanny — soft, rounded forms that seem kneaded rather than cast, evoking both the domes­tic ritual of baking and the perma­nence of stoneware. In Toogood’s hands, table­ware becomes not only func­tional but expres­sive, a sculp­tural pres­ence on the table.

Toogood’s work has entered the perma­nent collec­tions of major insti­tu­tions, includ­ing the Philadel­phia Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, the National Gallery of Victo­ria in Melbourne, and the Fabergé Museum in St. Peters­burg. Her pieces have been shown inter­na­tion­ally at venues such as the Victo­ria and Albert Museum in London, the Trien­nale di Milano, Phillips de Pury, and D Museum in Seoul.

Whether design­ing cloth­ing for her studio label or table­ware for the home, Toogood consis­tently returns to a central idea: that design can embody the tactile, the hand­made, and the emotional, while exist­ing comfort­ably within the canon of contemporary art.