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#Alice Fox
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“Clutch Vessel #43.” Picture by Curtis James. All pictures © Alice Fox, shared with permission
Limpets, the cone-shaped sea snails we see hooked up to boulders alongside salty shorelines, can stay between 10 and 20 years, by no means straying too removed from house. They at all times return to the identical spot, regularly sporting a perfectly-sized ring within the floor of the rock, often called house scars. Finally, empty shells wash up alongside the coast, and for Alice Fox, the dainty specimens present one in every of many canvases for delicately woven items (beforehand).
Fox grows supplies like nettle, bramble, and bindweed in her backyard allotment in West Yorkshire, the place exercise shifts from season to season. “My gardening provides food for my kitchen and materials for my work, and it is impossible to separate the two from one another,” she tells Colossal. “The allotment shed becomes an outdoor studio during the summer, drying and gathering my plant fibres, before moving these to my home studio before the damp of autumn sets in.”
Hen eggs present a scale and type that Fox finds alluring with regards to wrapping them in each delicate and inflexible supplies. Her sequence Clutch is a part of a sequence of fifty vessels constructed for an exhibition titled Making:50, which celebrates the group’s half century run—and counting. From moss to eggshells to backyard implements, Fox intricately envelops discovered objects to provide them new life. This 12 months, due to funding from the Theo Moorman Belief for Weavers, the artist has been specializing in creating new work utilizing her personal allotment-grown flax.
You may see Fox’s work in STILL, alongside sculptor Juliet Gutch, at Tinker Gallery in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, by August 10, and the exhibition Full Bloom at jaggedart in London by August 16. Her work can also be included in Sympoiesis at Discussion board Arte Braga in Portugal by September 15, and she or he is engaged on a brand new e-book titled Wild Weave, which is slated for launch subsequent autumn from Batsford Books. Discover extra on the artist’s web site and Instagram.
Stitched limpet shells
Moss material fragment
“Clutch Vessel #23.” Picture by Curtis James
“Clutch Vessel #32”
“Hybrid 3: Blue Spade & Bramble.” Picture by Sarah Mason
“Hybrid 7: Scraper, Beech & Bindweed.” Picture by David Lindsay
“Hybrid 8: Fork & Bindweed”
#Alice Fox
#gardening
#textiles
#weaving
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