Jacob Walls ()

Jacob Walls is a London-based artist and designer working across sculpture, furniture, and interactive installation. With a background in fine art, furniture design, and fashion archiving, his cross-disciplinary practice explores the evolving relationships between people and the objects that shape their environments.

His MA project at Central Saint Martins, completed in 2025, was a functional art-object-series designed to deepen the connection between person, object, and space. Called Pangolin, the work features a sculptural body constructed from factory foam offcuts, dyed using heat-sensitive pigments that respond to human touch and ambient temperature, and a reinforced metal skeletal framework.

Drawing inspiration from natural systems of protection, such as shells, seeds, and layered pods, the object-series references how organic structures house, hold, and adapt to their environments. These references are echoed in the form’s layered construction, forming a visual language that moves between interior and exterior, concealment and exposure. By inviting physical interaction, Pangolin reveals a responsive surface that transforms with use, recording momentary traces of the body through colour shifts. The furniture doesn’t merely occupy space, it responds to it, constantly in transition. The user becomes the final, active layer in a dynamic system, completing the form through heat, presence, and engagement. Each encounter creates a unique sensory experience, revealing often-overlooked dialogues between body, object, and environment.