"Stutchbury’s works resemble landscapes. It is not just the way their contoured relief patterns recall maps or aerial views, but the whole manner of their coming into being. Stutchbury allows the woodstrips themselves to guide his way, each carefully selected tile by carefully selected tile, building a work through a painstaking process as slow as erosion or accretion."
- Emma Crichton-Miller (Journalist and Editor-in-Chief of The Design Edit)
Wycliffe Stutchbury's solo exhibition displays a series of ambitious pictorial wall panels inspired by the rhythms found in nature, from the Fenlands of East Anglia to the South Downs coated in thick forests where the artist spent his earliest days. The exhibition also showcases new biomorphic sculptural pieces that explore a deeper primordial connection between humanity and the natural world.
‘My compositions made from fallen and forgotten timber are studies in the narrative beauty of wood. They are made to reveal timbers’ response to its environment over time, its un-fashioned beauty, durability, and vulnerability. The origin of the material I use is central to my work.’
­– Wycliffe Stutchbury
Wycliffe studied at the London College of Furniture and subsequently worked for 25 years as a furniture maker. In 2003, he graduated from the University of Brighton with a BA in 3D Craft, and in the same co-founded the Blue Monkey Studio, a collective of Eastbourne based artists. The artist has exhibited extensively in the UK and the US and has significant works in international private collections. He has received several notable awards, including from the Crafts Council UK and the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers UK. In 2018, Wycliffe was shortlisted for the Loewe Craft Prize.

mpefm UNITED KINGDOM art press release
Opening Hours :
Monday - Friday 10.00am - 6.00pm
Saturday 10.00am - 5.00pm

QR of this press release
in your phone, tablet