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Abigail is an artist and textile craft practitioner living and working in rural Somerset. Born in London in 1991, she studied Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute and Chelsea College of Art, from where she graduated in 2013. In 2014 she co-founded the studio practice Forest Found, with her partner Max Bainbridge whom she works alongside to produce wider projects, exhibiting her work throughout the UK and internationally. Their selected exhibitions include: Idylls of the Field, Lemon Street Gallery (2022), Shallow Lands, Informality Gallery (2021/22), Biophilia, Make Hauser Wirth Somerset (2021) Walking the Line, Ruthin Craft Centre (2018); Common Thread, New Art Centre (2020), Jerwood Makers Open, Jerwood Space (2019/20), Collect Open, Saatchi Gallery (2018). Her book The Wild Dyer was published in 2017 and in 2020 she was awarded a QEST scholarship for Painting Textiles.
Describe your approach to teaching:
With a foundation in learning traditional skills, my teaching focuses on play and experimentation to free up a more creative way of working with textiles. I work with students to build confidence and trust in their intuition to pursue a self-guided approach to making their own work.
What inspires your work?
Working across a material language of painting, textiles and natural colour, my works delve into the internal narratives of our imagination, dreams and memory, as they originate in our interactions with nature. Reflecting on the intrinsic relationship of textiles to the human body and psychological condition I look to my painted and patchworked canvases as a site where tactile images can manifest and play with our shifting understanding of place and identity. By using pigments cultivated and unearthed from the plants and landscapes I encounter, I introduce site as both a physical and imagined space directly into the quilted surface of my works. In the very nature of their patchworked and layered construction, I question the complexity of the constructed identities of our landscapes as they are continually being remade and transformed.Abigail Booth’s Followers (1)
Abigail Booth Biography – Abigail Booth Wiki
Abigail Booth is an artist and textile craft practitioner who studied Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute and Chelsea College of Art, where she graduated in 2013 as a painter and sculptor.
Working across a material language of painting, textiles and natural colour, her works delve into the internal narratives of our imagination, dreams and memory, as they originate in our interactions with nature. Reflecting on the intrinsic relationship of her materials to the human body and psychological condition she looks to her painted and patchworked canvases as a site where tactile images can manifest and play with our shifting understanding of place and identity.
By using pigments cultivated and unearthed from the plants, and landscapes she encounters, she introduces site as both a physical and imagined space directly into the surface of her works. In the very nature of their pieced, and layered construction, she questions the complexity of the wild and constructed identities of our landscapes as they are continually being remade and transformed. Exploring the inner-psyche and our subliminal need to connect with the natural, Booth purposefully draws us into these dreamt and tactile places, asking us to confront our past and future relationships to the natural world.She exhibits her work throughout the UK and internationally, often collaborating with her partner Max Bainbridge under their studio Forest Found.
Her book “The Wild Dyer: A Maker’s Guide to Natural Dyes with Projects to Create and Stitch (learn how to forage for plants, prepare textiles for dyeing, and make your own mordant. Includes eight hand stitching projects from coasters to a patchwork blanket),” was published in October 2017 by the Princeton Architectural Press.Abigail Booth Age
Abigail was born in London in 1991.
Abigail Booth Money for Nothing
Abigail Booth is a regular designer on BBC1’s Money for Nothing alongside Zoe Murphy, Rupert Blanchard, Jay Blades, Mark ‘Horse’ Philips, Bex Simon, Max Bainbridge, Paul Firbank, Lizzie Gossling, Anthony Devine and Rob Shaer.Abigail Booth Instagram
Abigail Booth’s Instagram is @forestandfound.
