Exhibition
Laura Ellen Bacon
5 Apr-7 Sep 2025
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Wakefield WF4 4LG
Credit: Photo © Alun Callender. Courtesy the artist and Hignell Gallery
Overview
Using ancient materials and techniques, Derbyshire-based artist Laura Ellen Bacon will make an immersive and embracing installation for YSP’s 18th-century Chapel. Woven in willow, a sustainable and warm material, the work will respond to the historic architecture with its abstract forms and huge scale creating a stunning and compelling sensory experience.
Bacon will create a wide, high sculptural form that people can stand within, mesmerised by the sensory beauty of its material and the intricate and powerful process of making. To create the work, the artist will work on site over eight weeks constructing the sculpture from scratch, using willow to draw in space and to make a self-supporting structure that through its material and form conjures a primal instinct to nest and to connect with the natural world. Through an accompanying series of events with the artist YSP’s innovative learning team will explore the themes, processes and making of the work.
Exhibition supported by Hignell Gallery.
