Abigail Booth’s practice combines repertoires and methods rarely found together. Borrowing from a range of traditions––minimalist painting, quilting, natural dyeing and pigmentation––her works achieve an elusive, enigmatic effect. She adores familiar domestic objects, even as she transforms them utterly. Complex, time-intensive processes underpin works that project an outward simplicity. A week might be spent hand grinding bone or charred oak into a pigment, hunting for fabrics whose stains and tears offer the patina of past lives, or stitching recycled calico into a texturally rich canvas. Booth doesn’t believe in shortcuts; her work finds its identity in patient exploration. 

Abigail Booth is an artist working at the intersection of fine art and contemporary craft. With her partner, the sculptor Max Bainbridge, she operates the studio collective Forest + Found in Somerset, England. Born in London in 1991, Booth studied Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute and Chelsea College of Art. She has exhibited throughout the UK and internationally, including solo and group shows with Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset, The New Art Centre, Ruthin Craft Centre, Manchester Art Gallery and Jerwood Arts in London.