About
Laura Ellen Bacon is a British sculptor creating evocative large-scale sculptures using natural materials that encourage the viewer to experience their environment in a different way. Bacon’s use of willow emerges from a desire to work them into a formed space, using a language of materials that feel familiar to the natural world. Her works have weight, presence, and a strange quality of having always existed.
Bacon has created indoor and open-air exhibits including Chatsworth, Somerset House, Sudeley Castle (for Sotheby’s), The Holburne Museum, Normanby Hall, Abbaye de Maubuisson and Chateau Gaillard. In 2017 Bacon was a finalist within the Woman’s Hour Craft Prize at the V&A and in 2018 her work inspired the composer Helen Grime, whose resulting three-part movement, ‘Woven Space’ was performed at the Barbican by the London Symphony Orchestra.
This Summer Bacon will be exhibiting at Denver Art Museum in Colorado, USA.
