Alice Fox
Alice Fox. Wrapped Stone Braided dandelion stems with stone and found plastic. INSIGHTS project. Photo by Electric Egg.
Alice Fox. Processed materials and constructed objects using plant fibres and objects gathered from allotment. INSIGHTS project. Photo by Electric Egg.
Alice Fox. Dandelion Weave Dandelion stem cordage woven in continuous warp/weft structure. Photo by Sarah Mason.
Alice Fox. Galling (detail) ): Found objects and materials, paper, drawing with oak gall ink. DIS/rupt project. Photo by Kevin Mead.
Alice Fox. Hybrid 3: Blue Spade Looped bramble fibre cordage with found metal tool. Photo by Sarah Mason.
Tide Line (group) by Alice Fox Tapestry weave in cotton, beach-combed metal, sea water.
Unknown Book (side) by Alice Fox A collection of hand made book units with stitched Coptic binding in linen thread, using new and re-purposed paper, incorporating print, natural staining and gold leaf.
Spurn Cloth #2 on the beach, by Alice Fox Linen and ramie, rust dyed on location using sea defence structures and seawater, collagraph print using found objects.
Artist statement
Sustainability is at the heart of my practice. The desire to take an ethical approach has driven a shift from using conventional art and textile materials into exploring found objects, gathered materials and natural processes. The work that I make is process led. I gather the materials that are available to me, testing, sampling and exploring them to find possibilities using my textiles-based skill set and techniques borrowed from soft basketry. I make sculptural works, bringing different materials together to form tactile surfaces and structures.
Establishing my allotment garden as a source of materials for my work has provided a space where I 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 are hard-won: There may only be a small batch of each type of usable material each year. As a result, each bundle of dandelion stems, bramble fibre or hand processed flax is enormously precious by its scarcity and the meaning attached to it through its sourcing and hand-processing
Following a first career in nature conservation, I studied Contemporary Surface Design and Textiles at Bradford School of Art (2011), followed by an MA in Creative Practice at Leeds Arts University (2019). I have had work acquired by Bodelain Libraries, Oxford, Newcastle City Library, the International Quilt Museum, Lincoln Nebraska and the Ahmanson Collection, USA. I was commissioned by the clothing company TOAST and Kettles Yard, Cambridge for their Re-New project in 2019. I am published by Batsford (2015 and 2022) and have produced a number of self-published titles.
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