I’m Alice Fox, an artist living and working in West Yorkshire, UK. I am author of Natural Processes in Textile Art and Wild Textiles (both published by Batsford), as well as a number of self-published books available from my website.
Sustainability is at the heart of my practice. The desire to take an ethical approach has driven a shift from using conventional art and textile materials into exploring found objects, gathered materials and natural processes. Using my textiles-based skill set and techniques borrowed from soft basketry, I make sculptural works, bringing different materials together to form tactile surfaces and structures.
Establishing my allotment garden as a source of materials for my work has provided a space where I can experiment, exploring the potential of what grows there - planted and wild - as well as other materials found on the plot. Materials are produced, gathered and processed seasonally and are hard-won: There may only be a small batch of each type of usable material each year. As a result, each bundle of wild fibre or hand processed flax is enormously precious by its scarcity and the meaning attached to it through its sourcing and hand-processing.
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