Glen Farrelly
Wood Sculpture | Resilience & Memory | Contemporary Form
Glen Farrelly RCA creates contemplative sculptures from reclaimed, storm-fallen, and charred wood - works that explore resilience, transformation, and the quiet strength of nature. His practice began after surviving wildfires in California, when he returned to the fire-ravaged sites to collect fragments of scorched timber. That encounter set him on a new path, uncovering the beauty in damaged wood and giving new life to discarded material.
Now based in North Wales, Glen continues to work with wood in all its states - whether weathered, fallen, or charred - often preserving it through the Japanese technique of Yakisugi. His pieces balance solidity with fragility, surface with void, creating forms that carry both history and renewal. Each work is shaped by memory and transformation, inviting reflection as much as admiration.
Trained at Camberwell College of Arts, Glen began his career in ceramics before spending two decades as Head of Art at one of London’s top independent schools. He is now an Associate Member of the Royal Cambrian Academy, with work exhibited internationally from California to Kuwait and Japan, and across the UK in sculpture parks, academies, and galleries. His sculptures have also been featured in publications including House & Garden and Abode2.
At the heart of his practice is a deep respect for wood as a living material - its capacity to endure, to carry memory, and to be reimagined through craft. Each Glen Farrelly sculpture is both an object of form and a meditation on resilience, ecology, and the stories nature leaves behind.
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