TIWA Select

Lucid Dream by Faye Toogood. An exhibition exploring states of the subconscious mind through hand-painted furniture and lighting works, showed 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.

What colour do I dream in? A meandering line with a mind of its own.

“I wanted to capture something of how the mind doodles. I was thinking about ink blot Rorschach tests, ambiguous shifting forms, Lee Krasner painting in the night using only umber paint, mummy brown – a pigment painters used to use that was made from actual ground up Egyptian mummies…” – Faye Toogood

At TIWA Select, Toogood introduced Johnny. A new family of paper lighting. Each unique piece has been covered in hand-painted motifs, in a single pigment. Drawings originally made when working furiously through the night.