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#Alice Fox
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“Clutch Vessel #43.” Photograph by Curtis James. All photographs © Alice Fox, shared with permission
Limpets, the cone-shaped sea snails we see hooked up to boulders alongside salty shorelines, can reside between 10 and 20 years, by no means straying too removed from dwelling. They all the time return to the identical spot, regularly sporting a perfectly-sized ring within the floor of the rock, generally known as dwelling scars. Finally, empty shells wash up alongside the coast, and for Alice Fox, the dainty specimens present one among 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 supplies meals for my kitchen and supplies for my work, and it’s unattainable to separate the 2 from each other,” she tells Colossal. “The allotment shed turns into an outside studio in the course of the summer time, drying and gathering my plant fibres, earlier than transferring these to my dwelling studio earlier than the damp of autumn units in.”
Hen eggs present a scale and type that Fox finds alluring with regards to wrapping them in each mushy 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 offer them new life. This yr, due to funding from the Theo Moorman Belief for Weavers, the artist has been specializing in growing 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 he or she is engaged on a brand new guide 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 fabric fragment
“Clutch Vessel #23.” Photograph by Curtis James
“Clutch Vessel #32”
“Hybrid 3: Blue Spade & Bramble.” Photograph by Sarah Mason
“Hybrid 7: Scraper, Beech & Bindweed.” Photograph by David Lindsay
“Hybrid 8: Fork & Bindweed”
#Alice Fox
#gardening
#textiles
#weaving
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