Course Details
An exploration of the land around Moor Hall studio, creating records of our experience of place using simple weave and manipulation techniques with natural fibres, found objects, and gathered materials.
There are many ways we can record what we see around us and how we experience the natural world. Alice’s workshops invite the participant to notice the detail that surrounds us and explore the potential of what we find. Gathered objects and materials will be used alongside natural fibre threads, creating seasonal and site-specific samples and structures.
This workshop covers weaving with a variety of ‘off loom’ techniques and focusing on working with unconventional foraged materials. The workshop will include an introduction to some basic weave techniques using a simple wooden frame. We will look at ways to incorporate found materials, gathered from the land outside the studio, into our woven samples. We will also look at techniques such as twining to transform foraged items into structures.
Biography
Alice Fox is an artist based in West Yorkshire, UK. The desire to work sustainably is at the heart of her practice and has driven a shift from using conventional art and textile materials into exploring found objects, gathered materials and natural processes. Using her textiles-based skill set and techniques borrowed from soft basketry, Alice makes sculptural works, bringing different materials together to form tactile surfaces and structures.
Establishing her allotment as a source of materials for her work has provided a space where Alice can experiment, exploring the potential of what grows there, planted and wild, as well as other materials found on the plot. Materials are produced, gathered and processed seasonally and by hand. As a result, each bundle of dandelion stems, bramble fibre or hand processed flax is seen as precious due its scarcity and the meaning attached to it through its sourcing and hand-processing.
Alice exhibits and teaches internationally and is a member of the Textile Study Group. Her books Natural Processes in Textile Art (2015), Wild Textiles (2022) and Wild Weave (2025) are published by Batsford. She also has a series of self-published titles.
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