Laura ellen bacon biography

British sculptor Laura Ellen Bacon makes large-scale work by weaving willow.

Laura ellen bacon biography

Her dynamic forms, which emphasize the process of making, emerge from a detailed and, to some extent, meditative, almost spiritual approach. In her current exhibition—“Chaque Fibre de Mon Être” (“Every fiber of my being”), at L’Abbaye de Maubuisson in the town of Saint-Ouen L’Aumône, just northwest of Paris—her sensitivity to materials is paired with attention to an evocative site.

Two installations, Breathe and The Feeling Remains, interpret and transform spaces formerly occupied by nuns, one space for speaking and the other for silence and working. 

Robert Preece: How did you come to be interested in weaving willow?
Laura Ellen Bacon: When I realized, over 20 years ago, that I wanted to work with sticks, it was a simple desire to want to enmesh, to enclose, and to draw in a three-dimensional way.

The roots for these instinctive ideas grew in childhood, when I was always to be found burrowi