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“The Feeling Stays” (2022). Picture by Jean Michel Rousvoal. All photos © Laura Ellen Bacon, shared with permission
Laura Ellen Bacon transforms a whole lot of kilos of willow branches into amorphous, oscillating kinds. 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 setting.
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 fastened and immobile, however I try a way of natural progress,” Bacon explains. “I benefit from the visible impression that the work is just not completed rising and should slowly proceed to achieve, grasp, or take over the positioning.”
Her latest set up, “Rejuvenation,” engulfs the Denver Artwork Museum’s atrium, towering greater than twenty toes excessive. The prodigious work is impressed by the pure root techniques of willow itself, capturing how its capillary networks path and increase.
See “Rejuvenation” by the autumn, and discover extra sculptures on Bacon’s web site and Instagram.
“Rêverie” (2023)
Element of “Rêverie” (2023)
“Don’t Let Go” (2019). Picture by Michelle Tennison
Set up view of “Rejuvenation” on the Denver Artwork Museum. Picture by DAM Pictures
“Inundation” (2014). Picture by Dewi Tannatt Lloyd
“Break up Kinds” (2012)
Picture by Sebastian King
Picture by Alun Callender
#set up
#Laura Ellen Bacon
#sculpture
#site-specific
#weaving
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