About
Working across a material language of quilt-making, painting and print, Abigail Booth’s practice explores the emotional capacity of the quilt to embody dreams and memory across time and space. Reflecting on the intrinsic relationship of her materials both to the human body and the psychological condition, her works are 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 and the printed image. Central to her work is an exploration of how our domestic lives 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 tenderness and tensions held within the materiality of her works and our everyday lives.
Born in London in 1991, Booth trained at Chelsea College of Art (BA Fine Art 2013) San Francisco Art Institute (International Exchange Program 2012) and Byam Shaw School of Art (Foundation 2010). She has exhibited her work at: Make Hauser & Wirth (Somerset 2018/2024), Radnōr (New York 2023/24), Informality Gallery (Oxfordshire 2022), Amelie Maison D’Art (Paris 2022/24), New Art Centre (Roche Court 2020), Kettles Yard (Cambridge 2019), Oriel Myrddin Gallery (Wales 2019), Ruthin Craft Centre (Wales 2018); Awards include: DYCP Grant (Arts Council England 2023/24), QEST Scholarship (2020), Jerwood Makers Open (2019), Collect Open (Crafts Council 2018); Residencies: Braemar Residency (Make Hauser & Wirth 2023), Need Make Use (Pitt Rivers Museum 2017). In 2014 she established Forest + Found, an art collective with whom she works on public commissions, exhibitions and curatorial projects.
