Todd Merrill Studio is honored to announce representation of Laura Facey, a celebrated Jamaican sculptor whose powerful, meditative practice spans more than five decades. Working from her historic estate in St. Ann, Jamaica, Facey transforms locally sourced hardwoods, such as lignum vitae, cedar, mahogany, and other fallen timbers, into sculptures that probe the emotional, spiritual, and historical contours of the Caribbean.

Facey began her artistic journey fifty years ago at Jamaica’s National Art School in Downtown Kingston during a period of intense cultural and political upheaval. The collective trauma she witnessed during those early years would inform her work for decades, emerging in carved motifs such as mahogany hearts, silhouettes of ships, and forms that reckoned with Jamaica’s painful history, including the legacy of enslavement. Her monument Redemption Song (2003), commissioned for Emancipation Park in Kingston, catapulted her onto the international stage for its raw, honest confrontation of liberation and memory.

In recent years, Facey’s work has undergone a profound transformation. While the first half of her career was deeply autobiographical and cathartic, her current practice embraces an expansive sense of healing, renewal, and divine presence. Her sculptures now explore lightness, transcendence, and the energetic forces that shape both the physical and spiritual worlds.

Through her meticulous craftsmanship and deep attunement to place, Facey interprets the land, histories, and emotional landscapes of Jamaica with uncommon sensitivity. Her sculptures function as vessels of healing rooted in earth and ancestry, yet oriented toward transcendence.

Facey has exhibited internationally for nearly fifty years, with solo exhibitions at the International Slavery Museum (Liverpool), The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts (London), Ormsby Memorial Hall (Kingston), and venues across Jamaica, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Caribbean. Her numerous accolades include the Jamaican National Honour of the Order of Distinction (Commander), the Aaron Matalon Award from the National Gallery of Jamaica, the Silver Musgrave Medal for sculpture, and the Jamaica Festival Commission Gold Medal.

Today, Laura Facey stands as one of Jamaica’s most significant contemporary sculptors—a visionary whose work bridges histories of pain with pathways toward spiritual expansion, beauty, and collective renewal.