Exhibition: Ground Work

About the Event

Laura Ellen Bacon b.1976, United Kingdom creates site‐specific sculptures in willow and stone that allude to animal habitats, such as dens or nests. Recent exhibitions and installations include Natural ReSources at Ruthin Craft Centre 2023, Ruthin, Wales; Muscle Mass at The Rural Life Museum within Normanby Hall 2023, Normanby, England; and the Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition 2023, London.

Recent solo exhibitions include Rejuvenation at the Denver Art Museum 2024, Denver, Colorado and Every Fibre of My Being Chaque Fibre de Mon Etre 2022, Abbaye de Maubuisson, France, Production Conseil departemental du Val-d'Oise. Burrow, Bacon's first solo exhibition in London in May 2024, was presented by Hignell Gallery at the historic Marquis House in St. James's. Bacon was a finalist within the Woman's Hour Craft Prize at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 2017.

For Ground work 2025, Laura Ellen Bacon crafted Gathering My Thoughts, a gigantic sculpture, approximately nine‐feet long and five‐feet high, that will surround a tree in the Clark's woodlands along a recreational trail.

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