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RSS FeedsA sculptural installation in Willow and Birch by Laura Ellen Bacon on view at The Harley Gallery
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19 august 2018 05:20:04

 
A sculptural installation in Willow and Birch by Laura Ellen Bacon on view at The Harley Gallery
(Artdaily.org)
 


Using silver birch gathered from around the vast Welbeck estate in Sherwood Forest and willow from Somerset, artist Laura Ellen Bacon is has created a huge, new, ‘human-scale’ sculpture to twine around the ground floor at The Harley Gallery. Opened on 28 July and running till 7 October, ‘LAID’ is abstract in design although the sculpture is loosely inspired by hedge laying and the complex internal spaces of a hedge. Its monumental, site-specific scale allows visitors to enter the sculpture and wander within its nest-like intimacy for an immersive experience that displays the intricacy of Bacon’s work. Using many thousands of branches, the entire installation has been made by hand using natural materials. Bacon and a small team of helpers knotted, weaved, twisted and plaited the birch and willow over hundreds of hours to create a form at once strange and familiar, straddling the natural world and the


 
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