Abigail 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 hand-stitched 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.

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.