Abigail is an artist and textile craft practitioner who graduated in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts and currently runs her collaborative arts practice Forest + Found, with whom she exhibits internationally. She uses traditional textile crafts in her work as a way to engage in wider conversations about making and craft. Her book The Wild Dyer is published in October 2017.
Describe your approach to teaching:
My teaching focuses on play and experimentation to free up a more
creative way of working with natural materials. Working with
natural dyes, colour is taught as something unknown and yet to be
discovered.
What inspires your work?
Through minimal use of colour and paired back structure my work
explores a deep connection to our sense of place. Referencing
familiar architectural motifs such as bars, grids and columns, I
use patchwork to construct broken compositions that illustrate the
failed or fractured in both our built and natural surroundings.
West Dean College and Gardens are part of a registered charity and relies on the support of generous donors, friends, legacies to help us deliver world-class education in conservation and the creative arts and maintain our award-winning gardens.
