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#Laura Ellen Bacon
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![an organic sculptural form made from willow and tree branches wraps around a column in the room of an abbey.](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/bacon1-scaled.jpeg)
“The Feeling Stays” (2022). Photograph by Jean Michel Rousvoal. All pictures © Laura Ellen Bacon, shared with permission
Laura Ellen Bacon transforms lots of of kilos of willow branches into amorphous, oscillating types. Ascending upward alongside the facet of a constructing, wrapping round abbey columns, and located within the English countryside as if manifested out of skinny air, every monumental construction instructions its atmosphere.
The Derbyshire-based artist has labored with willow for greater than twenty years. She describes listening to the fabric intently and noticing how every department carries a singular line high quality. Discovering magnificence in accumulation as she weaves numerous segments collectively, Bacon creates what she refers to as “three-dimensional drawings.”
Although a few of her items can weigh upward of 500 kilos, every evokes a way of fluidity and motion. “The work I make is mounted and immobile, however I try a way of natural progress,” Bacon explains. “I benefit from the visible impression that the work just isn’t completed rising and should slowly proceed to succeed in, grasp, or take over the positioning.”
Her latest set up, “Rejuvenation,” engulfs the Denver Art Museum’s atrium, towering greater than twenty toes excessive. The prodigious work is impressed by the pure root programs of willow itself, capturing how its capillary networks path and develop.
See “Rejuvenation” by means of the autumn, and discover extra sculptures on Bacon’s website and Instagram.
![a curved organic form made from willow and branches ascends upward next to a dilapidated brick building](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/bacon5.jpg)
“Rêverie” (2023)
![an ivory-hued, curved organic form made from willow and branches rests on the ground next to a brick wall](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/bacon6-scaled.jpg)
Element of “Rêverie” (2023)
![a curved organic form made from willow and branches wraps around the base of a tree in a forest](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/bacon8.jpg)
“Don’t Let Go” (2019). Photograph by Michelle Tennison
![a curved organic form made from willow and branches ascends upward](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/bacon11-scaled.jpg)
Set up view of “Rejuvenation” on the Denver Artwork Museum. Photograph by DAM Images
![a curved organic form made from willow and branches ascends upward toward the ceiling inside of a gallery room](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/bacon3.jpg)
“Inundation” (2014). Photograph by Dewi Tannatt Lloyd
![a curved organic form made from willow and branches ascends upward, leaning against a house](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/bacon10.jpg)
“Break up Varieties” (2012)
![a detailed view of woven willow](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/bacon7.jpg)
Photograph by Sebastian King
![the artist holds a bunch of willow as she stands next to a tangled organic form made from willow and branches in the forest](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/bacon-14.jpg)
Photograph by Alun Callender
#installation
#Laura Ellen Bacon
#sculpture
#site-specific
#weaving
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