Booth’s practice spans a material language of quilt-making, printmaking and painting, exploring the emotional capacity of the quilt to embody imagination, dreams and memory as they manifest in our inner connection to nature. Reflecting on the intrinsic relationship of her materials to the human body and psychological condition, her quilt works are tactile manifestations of our shifting understanding of place and identity. The physical origin of pigments cultivated, and unearthed from the plants, and landscapes she encounters, become both a tangible and imagined space worked directly into the handstitched and printed surface of her works. Through the lens of textiles, Abigail’s practice explores how our domestic lives and our connection to the natural world intertwine to permeate the subconscious mind.

“I’ve always been interested in the ‘archetype’ and its function within personal and collective memory. The windswept tree as a recurring image is solitary, slow growing, yet it remains, present and grounded, leaning simultaneously into our past whilst evolving into the future.”