About
Wycliffe Stutchbury is a Wales-based artist. He studied at the London College of Furniture and 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. His work has exhibited extensively in the UK and the US and has significant pieces in international private collections. He has received several awards from the Crafts Council UK and the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers UK. In 2018, the artist was shortlisted for the Loewe Craft Prize, in 2021 he won the bespoke category in the British Wood Awards. Most recently in 2025, the artist received Honourable Mention for his architectural project The Craig in the Design Educates Award.
Stutchbury’s works are composed via the meticulous placement of wooden tiles, processed from fallen trees or disused architecture. Including timber shingles sourced from a coastal town in Maine, discarded field fencing, fallen bog oak found in Norfolk fens or felled holly from Abergavenny. Such material choices are significant. The local wood’s capacity to absorb, mutate and bear traces of its environment renders each work reflective of geographic specificity. A result of changeable weather systems and the artist’s editorial impulse. In such a way, the works evoke surfaces found in architecture. As exterior walls, roofs and structures are weathered via elemental interactions, so too are his pieces. Simultaneously, as gravity acts upon his compositions, they drape and fall mimicking textile. Thus embedded within the works are paradoxes between exterior and interior, fragility and endurance.
