Serena de la Hey

Serena de la Hey (born 1967) is a Kenyan-born British sculptor who has travelled widely but lived in Somerset since the early 1990s.

[1] De la Hey first used willow for sculpting human forms in 1992 when she created running wicker figures in the Nevada Desert.

[1] In 1999, in collaboration with Fernando Martin, she created a figure for the Glastonbury Festival which was burnt as part of a pyrotechnic display on the last night.

[5] In 2000, South West Arts commissioned her to create Willow Man, a 40-foot high wicker sculpture close to the M5 Motorway near Bridgwater.

[2] Thanks to a campaign to have the figure restored, in October 2001, de la Hey completed her second version, this time interweaving steel wire with the willow.