Poppy graduated from the Courtauld in 2016 and trained in figurative sculpture at The Florence Academy of Art. During her time in Italy, Poppy gave lectures on the History of Art and was awarded a QEST Scholarship, a Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship and the FAA’s Graduate in Residence Prize for sculpture. In 2019, Poppy's first life-size sculpture was commissioned in bronze, and she returned to the UK to set up her studio. In 2021, Poppy won her first public commission: two-metre bronze monuments of Her Majesty The Queen and Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. These will be installed in niches on The Royal Albert Hall's South Porch façade later this year. Today, Poppy combines traditional sculpting techniques with a painterly application of clay and bold, expressive gestures to bring her subjects to life. She layers clay and conversations to create vibrant surfaces, capturing the intangible essence of her subjects by building her sculptures from the inside out. “I grew up surrounded by anatomical illustrations, visiting patients on hospital wards to chat and take their history. Stories and bodies have always seemed intertwined to me, and I sculpt from life whenever possible. I have found that capturing that intangible thing, a kind of iconography of moments that someone else might call an essence, presence, or spirit, requires as much listening as modelling of form.”