Talk
In Conversation with Laura Ellen Bacon, shortlisted for Woman's Hour Craft Prize
21 Oct 2017
The Hub
Sleaford, United Kingdom
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Laura Ellen Bacon
Exhibition
Laura Ellen Bacon: Rooted in Instinct
21 Oct 2017 – 14 Jan 2018
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- Navigation Wharf
- Carre St
- Sleaford
Lincolnshire - NG34 7TW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- National Express coaches have a service to Sleaford from London and from other major cities and towns. Sleaford is locally serviced by Centrebus and Stagecoach.
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- We are a 5 minute walk from Sleaford train station which is serviced by East Midlands Trains. Sleaford is 1.5 hours from London and 1 hour from Nottingham and Leicester.
Event map
This Autumn, The National Centre for Craft & Design is proud to present Rooted in Instinct – a new collection of work developed especially for NCCD by Women’s Hour Craft Prize nominee and British Sculptor, Laura Ellen Bacon.
About
This Autumn, The National Centre for Craft & Design is proud to present Rooted in Instinct – a new collection of work developed especially for NCCD by Women’s Hour Craft Prize nominee and British Sculptor, Laura Ellen Bacon.
Rooted in Instinct is a unique exhibition demonstrating an evolution of the intuitive making process that has dominated Bacon’s practice to date. It is a pivotal moment in the artist’s career featuring unexpected and familiar forms in willow and new explorations in thatch, further developing the possibilities of traditional hand weaving and knotting techniques. In response to NCCD’s history as an old seed warehouse, new abstract sculptures create height density and detail, the forms are all at once majestic, immersive and ‘protective’ with a unique sense of connectivity to the heritage crafts and architecture of the Lincolnshire landscape.
