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. This particular sculpture will be on view in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s exhibition Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaéton from April – September 2026.