Forest + Found | Abigail Booth
Overview
Stranded
"Booth’s patchworked and painted canvases delve into the internal narratives of imagination, dreams and memory, as they originate in nature."
UK based partnership between artists Max Bainbridge and Abigail Booth. Working across the visual arts and contemporary craft, they draw upon a background in painting and sculpture whilst looking towards a newly developed language of craft, to produce installations that form dialogues between landscape, material and process.
Working across a multi-disciplinary language of textiles, painting, sculpture and print, Abigail Booth’s practice explores the emotional capacity of material objects to embody intergenerational memory across time and space. Reflecting on the intrinsic relationship of her materials both to the human body and the psychological condition, her works made from textiles, earth, bone, hair, wood and charcoal are multi-layered, tactile manifestations of our shifting understanding of place and identity. The physical origin of found objects and pigments, cultivated and unearthed from the environments she encounters, become both a tangible and imagined space worked directly into the surface of her works through hand stitching, painting, dyeing and the printed image. Central to her work is an exploration of how our domestic lives, family histories and intimate connection to material objects and the natural world permeate our subconscious throughout our lifetimes. Drawing on the transfer of intergenerational memory and our sense of belonging within a continually evolving material culture, her work is an intimate reflection on the emotional complexities held within our everyday lives, as she purposefully draws us into these dreamt and tactile places, asking us to confront our past and future relationships to the natural world.
Born in London in 1991, Abigail Booth studied Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute and Chelsea College of Art, from which she graduated in 2013. In 2014 she established Forest + Found, an art collective with whom she works on public commissions, exhibitions and curatorial projects.
Working across a multi-disciplinary language of textiles, painting, sculpture and print, Abigail Booth’s practice explores the emotional capacity of material objects to embody intergenerational memory across time and space. Reflecting on the intrinsic relationship of her materials both to the human body and the psychological condition, her works made from textiles, earth, bone, hair, wood and charcoal are multi-layered, tactile manifestations of our shifting understanding of place and identity. The physical origin of found objects and pigments, cultivated and unearthed from the environments she encounters, become both a tangible and imagined space worked directly into the surface of her works through hand stitching, painting, dyeing and the printed image. Central to her work is an exploration of how our domestic lives, family histories and intimate connection to material objects and the natural world permeate our subconscious throughout our lifetimes. Drawing on the transfer of intergenerational memory and our sense of belonging within a continually evolving material culture, her work is an intimate reflection on the emotional complexities held within our everyday lives, as she purposefully draws us into these dreamt and tactile places, asking us to confront our past and future relationships to the natural world.
Born in London in 1991, Abigail Booth studied Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute and Chelsea College of Art, from which she graduated in 2013. In 2014 she established Forest + Found, an art collective with whom she works on public commissions, exhibitions and curatorial projects.
Works
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Forest + Found | Abigail BoothDead Ends, Hand Me Down2026£ 4,200.00
Soot, linseed oil, quilted hair, chalk, hide glue, thread and gesso on antique drawer and mixed cottons
H18 x W92 x D26 cm -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothMantle Silhouette I2026£ 2,700.00
Soot, linseed oil, chalk, hide glue, muslin and gesso on reclaimed roof tiles
H49.5 x W74 x D3 cm -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothA Place to Warm Your Hands2026£ 1,500.00
Soot, linseed oil and gesso on mild steel and ceramic insulators
H23.5 x W8 x D13 cm each -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothStoke Calcifer2026£ 2,100.00
Soot, linseed oil, bone charcoal, gum damar, gesso, cotton card and animal bones on reclaimed cast iron fire surround
H47 x W52 x D25 cm -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothHeartburn2026£ 2,700.01
AGA oil burner and lacquer on mild steel
H14 x W84 x D23.5 cm -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothDark Hearth Silhouette III2026£ 950.00
Soot, linseed oil, chalk, hide glue and gesso on steel AGA ring and reclaimed nail
D37 cm -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothDark Hearth Silhouette IV2026£ 1,200.00
Soot, linseed oil and gesso on cast iron hotplate
D30 cm -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothDark Hearth Silhouette II2026£ 950.00
Soot, linseed oil, chalk, hide glue and gesso on steel AGA ring and reclaimed nail
D37 cm -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothDogtooth Familiar2024£ 3,500.00
Quilted dog hair, bone charcoal print, gum arabic and thread on hand quilted cotton calico and mixed cottons
H42 x W102 x D3.5 cm -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothSweet Burn2024£ 5,200.00
Tobacco leaf dye, thread, clay pipes, London clay, linseed oil, chalk and wire on hand quilted silk, mixed cottons and gesso panel
H65 x W145 x D6 cm -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothIn This Thin Skin2024£ 4,200.00
Pine charcoal print, gum arabic, brick dust, linseed oil, gesso and thread on hand quilted cotton calico and pine wood gesso panels
H73.5 x W105.5 x D3.5 cm -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothDark Hearth Silhouette I2024£ 950.00
Soot, linseed oil, chalk and hide glue on moulded gesso panels
H20 x W30 x D5.5 cm -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothThe Witness2023£ 9,200.00
Soot print, gum arabic and thread on hand quilted reclaimed textiles and cotton calico
H155 x W145 x D3.5 cm -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothSoft Lintel2023£ 4,200.00
Soot print, gum arabic, oak tannin dye and thread on hand quilted reclaimed textiles and cotton calico
H82 x W125 x D3.5 cm -
Forest + Found | Abigail BoothStrandedWood tannin, ground iron clay, thread, calico£ 6,840.00 inc. vat
H195 x W150 cm (unframed artwork)
Exhibitions
