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Wycliffe Stutchbury

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  • BIOGRAPHY

    Wycliffe Stutchbury 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 co-founded the Blue Monkey Studio, a collective of Eastbourne based artists, in the same year. 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, from the Crafts Council UK and the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers UK. In 2018, Wycliffe was shortlisted for the Loewe Craft Prize and in 2021 Wycliffe won the bespoke category in the British Wood Awards. 
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    The ancient British landscape and its ever-evolving story is an essential part of Wycliffe’s creative journey. His ambitious wall panels and standing screens are inspired by the countryside he has experienced and lived in over his lifetime; from the Fenlands of East Anglia to the South Downs, where the artist spent his earliest days. This childhood relationship to woodland means he has an intrinsically close bond to his material: holly bush, oak and bogwood express his emotional connection to his subject while acting as an index of place itself. For Wycliffe, the finished piece is always an exploration of landscape: field, furrow and fall line are all embedded in the undulating scenery his work recalls.

     

    His making process is slow and meditative; delicately hewn tiles of wood are placed by hand to create abstract compositions that are at once emotive, intuitive and conceptual. Patterns emerge in linear forms and subtle tonal changes susurrate across the picture's surface - reminding us of the wood’s creation and guiding us back to place. The final mass of shimmering wood shingles suggests a tension between the unpredictability of the natural world and the artist’s desire to impose new structures, while simultaneously retaining the life of the tree and its unique textural imperfections. Inconsistencies and anomalies are augmented, allowing the material to express its story in dialogue with the artist’s practice.

  • WORKS
    • Wycliffe Stutchbury Gayles Farm 5, 2020 Discarded oak fencing on cotton hung on 3 section hinged European oak frame
      Wycliffe Stutchbury
      Gayles Farm 5, 2020
      Discarded oak fencing on cotton hung on 3 section hinged European oak frame
    • Wycliffe Stutchbury Annie’s Wood/Hundred Foot Drain, 2017 Wood panelled shingle screen: common holly, European oak and bog oak
      Wycliffe Stutchbury
      Annie’s Wood/Hundred Foot Drain, 2017
      Wood panelled shingle screen: common holly, European oak and bog oak
    • Wycliffe Stutchbury Brass Point 2, 2020 Fallen Common Holly from Friston, East Sussex
      Wycliffe Stutchbury
      Brass Point 2, 2020
      Fallen Common Holly from Friston, East Sussex
    • Wycliffe Stutchbury Hundred Foot Drain 10, 2020 Excavated Bog Oak
      Wycliffe Stutchbury
      Hundred Foot Drain 10, 2020
      Excavated Bog Oak
    • Wycliffe Stutchbury Rooksnest 2, 2019 Felled European Oak Ermin St, Berks.
      Wycliffe Stutchbury
      Rooksnest 2, 2019
      Felled European Oak
      Ermin St, Berks.
    • Wycliffe Stutchbury Royal Hospital Chelsea, 2020 London plane Chelsea, London
      Wycliffe Stutchbury
      Royal Hospital Chelsea, 2020
      London plane
      Chelsea, London
    • Wycliffe Stutchbury The Hill 9, 2020 Felled common holly Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
      Wycliffe Stutchbury
      The Hill 9, 2020
      Felled common holly
      Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
    • Wycliffe Stutchbury Hundred Foot Drain 10, 2020 Excavated Bog Oak
      Wycliffe Stutchbury
      Hundred Foot Drain 10, 2020
      Excavated Bog Oak
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  • Installation Shots
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Design Miami, 2022
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: FOG, 2022
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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Outside In, 2021
    Design Miami, 2022
  • STORIES

    • How To Make It: FALL LINE
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      How To Make It: FALL LINE

      April 21, 2021
      Wycliffe Stutchbury’s show at Sarah Myerscough Gallery revels in the artist’s lifelong love for the English countryside. Sarah Myerscough Gallery in London opens this week with Fall Line, an exhibition...
    • Craft exhibitions to see in the UK this spring
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      Craft exhibitions to see in the UK this spring

      March 31, 2021
      At London’s Sarah Myerscough Gallery , wood artist Wycliffe Stutchbury transports us to the countryside by way of his vast pictorial wall panels that evoke locales from the East Anglian...
    • Wycliffe Stutchbury & Sarah Myerscough
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      Wycliffe Stutchbury & Sarah Myerscough

      The fifth in our new series of Crafted Conversations talks is between artist Wycliffe Stutchbury and Sarah Myerscough. Discussing ‘Fall Line’, Wycliffe’s solo exhibition currently on display at the gallery,...
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      Wycliffe Stutchbury

    • Wycliffe Stutchbury, Masterpiece London 'Encountering Beauty through the Material World'
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      Wycliffe Stutchbury

      Masterpiece London 'Encountering Beauty through the Material World'
      View 'Fall Line' exhibition page

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