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#Alice Fox #gardening #textiles #material
July 23, 2024
Kate Mothes
“Va with clutch #43.” Picture by Curtis James. All photographs © Alice Fox, distributed with permission
Limpels, the cone-shaped sea snails we see hooked up to boulders alongside salty shores, can dwell anyplace from 10 to 20 years, by no means straying too removed from house. They all the time return to the identical spot, steadily carrying a hoop of excellent dimension on the floor of the rock, often known as house scars. Finally, empty shells wash up alongside the coast, and for Alice Fox, the fragile specimens present one in every of many canvases for delicately woven items (beforehand).
Fox grows supplies resembling nettles, brambles and bindweed in her West Yorkshire backyard, the place the exercise adjustments from season to season. “Gardening provides me meals for the kitchen and supplies for my work, and it's unattainable to separate the 2 from one another,” she tells Colossal. “The store turns into an outside studio in the summertime, drying and gathering my plant fibers earlier than I transfer them into my studio at house earlier than the dampness of autumn units in.”
Rooster eggs supply a scale and form that Fox finds alluring in terms of wrapping them in each delicate and inflexible supplies. Her collection Clutch is a part of a collection of 50 vessels constructed for an exhibition entitled Achievement: 50, which celebrates the group's half-century of management—and counting. From moss to eggshells to backyard instruments, Fox intricately wraps discovered objects to offer them new life. This 12 months, because of funding from Theo Moorman Belief for Weavers, the artist centered on growing new works utilizing her personal field-grown flax.
You possibly can see Fox's work in YET, with sculptor Juliet Gutch on the Tinker Gallery in Ilkley, West Yorkshire till 10 August, and the exhibition Full bloom at jaggedart in London till 16 August. Her work can be included within the He sympathizes at Discussion board Arte Braga in Portugal till September 15 and is engaged on a brand new ebook titled Wild material, which is scheduled for launch subsequent fall from Batsford Books. Discover extra on the artist's web site and Instagram.
Sewn paw shells
Fragment of Moss Material
“Va with clutch #23”. Picture by Curtis James
“Clutch Bowl #32”
“Hybrid three: Blue Spade & Bramble.” Picture by Sarah Mason
“Hybrid 7: Scrapers, Beech and Bars.” Picture by David Lindsay
“Hybrid eight: Pitchfork and String”
#Alice Fox #gardening #textiles #material
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