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Laura Ellen Bacon’s Monumental Willow Works Ebb and Circulate in Amorphous Plenty — Colossal

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#set up
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July 3, 2024

Jackie Andres

“The Feeling Remains” (2022). Photograph by Jean Michel Rousvoal. All photos © Laura Ellen Bacon, shared with permission

Laura Ellen Bacon transforms lots of of kilos of willow branches into amorphous, oscillating varieties. Ascending upward alongside the facet of a constructing, wrapping round abbey columns, and located within the English countryside as if manifested out of skinny air, every monumental construction instructions its atmosphere.

The Derbyshire-based artist has labored with willow for greater than 20 years. She describes listening to the fabric intently and noticing how every department carries a novel line high quality. Discovering magnificence in accumulation as she weaves numerous segments collectively, Bacon creates what she refers to as “three-dimensional drawings.”

Although a few of her items can weigh upward of 500 kilos, every evokes a way of fluidity and motion. “The work I make is fixed and motionless, but I attempt a sense of organic growth,” Bacon explains. “I enjoy the visual impression that the work is not finished growing and may slowly continue to reach, grasp, or take over the site.”

Her latest set up, “Rejuvenation,” engulfs the Denver Artwork Museum’s atrium, towering greater than twenty ft excessive. The prodigious work is impressed by the pure root methods of willow itself, capturing how its capillary networks path and develop.

See “Rejuvenation” by the autumn, and discover extra sculptures on Bacon’s web site and Instagram.

 

a curved organic form made from willow and branches ascends upward next to a dilapidated brick building

“Rêverie” (2023)

an ivory-hued, curved organic form made from willow and branches rests on the ground next to a brick wall

Element of “Rêverie” (2023)

a curved organic form made from willow and branches wraps around the base of a tree in a forest

“Don’t Let Go” (2019). Photograph by Michelle Tennison

a curved organic form made from willow and branches ascends upward

Set up view of “Rejuvenation” on the Denver Artwork Museum. Photograph by DAM Pictures

a curved organic form made from willow and branches ascends upward toward the ceiling inside of a gallery room

“Inundation” (2014). Photograph by Dewi Tannatt Lloyd

a curved organic form made from willow and branches ascends upward, leaning against a house

“Split Forms” (2012)

a detailed view of woven willow

Photograph by Sebastian King

the artist holds a bunch of willow as she stands next to a tangled organic form made from willow and branches in the forest

Photograph by Alun Callender

#set up
#Laura Ellen Bacon
#sculpture
#site-specific
#weaving

 

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