Environmental Sculptor, Community Arts Artist

Rachel Huggett works with Schools, Communities and Service Users, delivering high quality workshops and projects that are motivating, supportive, and fun. She also does commissions for the public and private sector as well as maintaining her studio arts practice. She works in Dorset and London.

Highlights of recent community art projects include: "Fun Days" and "Fun 4 Kids" events, a wildlife-pole carving workshop with Arc-trust at "Wild about Boscombe", a residency at Ferndown Upper School carving totem poles with pupils, a number of Youth Centre workshops making mosaic installations with children in London, and winning a Bournemouth Arts Grant to run a carving project for St. Pauls Night Shelter sevice users.

Rachel's studio practice draws inspiration from organic shapes and the human form. Lately she has been experimenting with using cob as a sculptural medium. Use of felt, lead, hessian, willow, hazel and cotton wool are also evident in her work, complimenting her stone and wood carving. She has regular exhibitions of her studio work.

Rachel Huggett did her foundation art course in sculpture in Japan and then moved to Italy where she graduated from the Academy of Fine Art, Bologna.