Hetty Laycock (1997) is a sculptor from Yorkshire who graduated from Falmouth University, Cornwall (UK, 2019) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (Italy, 2024). Her practice fuses the transformation of materials and collaboration with place. Responding to contemporary challenges of ecological fragility and responsibility towards matter, her sculptures emphasise processes of erosion, growth, destruction, aging, and transformation. Through concepts such as weightlessness, negative space, and organic elements, her works emulate and sometimes integrate natural phenomena and processes. Her work invites the viewer to rethink the possibilities of materials, going beyond their conventional forms to create works that resonate with the rhythms of the natural world.

She has participated in artist residencies and exhibitions in several countries, including Slovenia, Poland, Japan and Taiwan. A significant moment in her career was her three-month residency at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai (China, 2019), which concluded with her first solo exhibition. She is currently engaged in new sculptural research projects in Japan, Belgium, and Italy, where she will continue to deepen her exploration of contemporary sculpture, themes of coexistence, and proximity.