An exhibition exploring states of the subconscious mind through hand-painted furniture and lighting works, showing simultaneously at The Future Perfect and TIWA Select.
FAYE TOOGOOD RETURNS TO HER STUDIO
After an intensive period of collaboration, focused on fusing Toogood’s design vocabulary with artisans, workshops and creative partners… Faye Toogood shifted focus back on her own singular voice.
“I needed to momentarily stop all the plates spinning around me, and focus on the swirl within. Going inside the studio, inside my body, inside my imagination. Taking a line for a walk to reclaim and reconfigure what is my language when all is quiet.” – Faye Toogood
Lucid Dream is a blast of creative energy that brings together an extremely personal and expressive grouping of Toogood objects. Many of the pieces presented in New York are one-of-one: using Toogood furniture as a substrate for hand-painting and mark-making.
DREAMING MAKES US HUMAN
Staged simultaneously across two innovative spaces: The Future Perfect and TIWA Select, Lucid Dream reaches inside and squeezes on dualities. Day Dreaming / Late-Night Making. The Ethereal / The Visceral. Emotional Intuition / Dream Logic.
“There was a whirlwind few months when I was travelling the world, working with so many different people, places, processes… So inspiring and exciting but for an introvert – as I am – incredibly exhausting. I remember getting back to London and going to the studio on a weekend when nobody else was in… and without really thinking about what I was doing, I pulled out a tray of paints and started defacing one of the studios Roly Poly chairs. I must have been staking my claim, carving my name… marking my X on the map… Feels a little silly to say, but it felt like an act of rebellion, as if I was doing something illicit and indulgent. That unplanned, unconscious act was the start of this new body of work.” – Faye Toogood
Lucid Dream sees Toogood continuing to push, play and provoke forms in new fabrications. Among the works presented at The Future Perfect are the most recent incarnations of the Roly Poly family – one of one hand painted fibreglass tables and chairs. Toogood also introduce the new Palette Mobile. Curving Aluminium shapes with hand sculpted elements. Born out of the hands-on, rebellious play Faye found when painting the Roly Poly. A celebration of process and spontaneous hands-on creation, that feels the closer and closer to sculpture.
