Faye Toogood (GB)

Fragmented Landscapes

July 31st – August 9th 2022

The Workshop

This workshop is SOLD OUT. For more information you can find us at workshops@boisbuchet.org

Glass and ceramic are both versatile, receptive and malleable. In this 10-days workshop, participants will go on a personal journey of exploring these ancestral materials in order to create sculptural landscapes. Each one's personal “tablescapes”, mobiles or jewelry pieces shall tell a story through texture, opacity, transparency, and translucency.

The natural environment of Boisbuchet can be as inspiring as your mythology and fantasies and boundaries between reality and the oneiric may become fluid. Existing artifacts might also be embedded in the process to add layers of meaning or enhance surface and ambience.

The workshop is all about finding the right balance in the composition of shapes, colors, layers and groupings in your abstract landscape.

Accompanied by a master technician at the tutor’s side, participants will learn some essential ceramic and glass blowing techniques while making use of Boisbuchet’s outdoor wood-fired kiln, built by the Corning Museum of Glass in 2010 on the basis of Korean-Japanese tradition.

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Faye Toogood United Kingdom

Faye Toogood is a British designer. Her furniture and objects demonstrate a preoccupation with materiality and experimentation. All of her pieces are handmade by small-scale fabricators and traditional artisans, with an honesty to the rawness and irregularity of the chosen material.

With an academic training in the theory and practice of fine art, and a vocational background at the forefront of the magazine industry, Toogood approaches product design with a singular and acutely honed eye. Her highly sculptural work, while showing an astute respect for the past, is derived from pure self-expression and instinct.

Toogood’s objects are grouped together into her trademark numbered ‘Assemblages’. This allows her to avoid the formulaic, to experiment with the materials and processes that dominate her thinking at a particular time. With each Assemblage, she engages not only with the products themselves but also with the three-dimensional space in which they are exhibited, working across multiple disciplines to create a single body of work with an intuitive and unified narrative.

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Housing

  • Accommodation & food are included

  • We can accommodate for special catering

  • All participants sleep in dormitories

  • To book a private room or bring additional guests, get in touch: workshops@boisbuchet.org

Education

  • Our staff are available to help you conceptualize & produce your designs

  • Tools & materials are provided by Boisbuchet

  • All workshops are taught in English

  • The number of participants is limited to 22

Activities