Dough Mug Charcoal

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.