My solo exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park can be seen until 7th September 2025.
‘Into Being’ is in The Chapel at YSP and contains a large installation (pictured), smaller woven forms, a collection of original drawings and my first limited edition print.
It also has an accompanying catalogue beautifully created at YSP by Louise Lohr, Deputy Curator with support from Hignell Gallery, which includes essays by Glenn Adamson and Catherine Milner and a conversation between Louise Lohr and I, discussing drawing and other aspects of my work. You can find the catalogue in The Chapel, the YSP shops and the YSP online shop.
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An alternative view of the interior of my work, Natural Course at Chatsworth.
Natural Course stands in part of the Garden called Arcadia, which has recently been redesigned by Tom Stuart-Smith. Four wonderful dry stone wallers assisted me in making the work in the early months of 2020.
The stones are gently covering with moss and lichen now which is lovely to see and hopefully providing habitats for small creatures.
Natural Course is detailed in the current issue of House and Garden (November issue), my thanks to House and Garden.
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‘Gathering My Thoughts’, 2025, Willow
Part of: Ground/work 2025, The Clark, Williamstown, Massachusetts USA, curated by Glenn Adamson. Until autumn 2026.
Ground/work 2025 explores global concepts of craft and includes international artists, Yō Akiyama (Japan), Aboubakar Fofana (Mali / France), Hugh Hayden (USA), Milena Naef (Germany), Javier Senosiain (Mexico) and myself, Laura Ellen Bacon (UK).
Seen today in The New York Times!
Wonderful article in The New York Times about the Ground/work exhibition by Ted Loos, detailing the scope of the exhibition and amazing wildlife encounters within the creation of the work.
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Photos by me apart from portrait by Hignell Gallery
Another photo from the archive for nesting season.
This one is from 2006, Nest Forms, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Hampshire. Stripped willow. Made directly in the tree with a scaffold platform.
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Photo by Laura Ellen Bacon, 2006
An image from the archive for nesting season…
I created this work in 2008 in the Harold Martin Botanic Gardens, Attenborough Arboretum, Leicestershire
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Photo by me, Laura Ellen Bacon 2008
Exhibition talk:
Drawing with Willow - The Work of Laura Ellen Bacon
I’m honoured that on Friday 10th April at Beningbrough Hall near York. you can hear Louise Lohr, Deputy Curator at YSP speak about my work.
In early 2025, I installed an installation and solo show in the Chapel at YSP, supported by Hignell Gallery which ran from 5th April to 7th September 2025 entitled, ‘Into Being’ (shown in first photo). The installation was created entirely in the chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park over a three month period from my fragile first willow outlines to my densely woven, large completed work.
Later in 2025 during the autumn I went on to create new works at Beningbrough Hall, including a very large installation in the Saloon called Thicket (shown in second photo), which can still be seen until 12th April ‘26. I am thrilled that Louise Lohr is able to speak about my work in this setting.
‘Drawing with Willow - the work of Laura Ellen Bacon’ with Louise Lohr, Deputy Curator of Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Friday 10th April, 11.30am - midday
at BENINGBROUGH HALL near York
Booking not needed.
Talk is free of charge although admission fee to Beningbrough Hall applies (National Trust).
My work at Beningbrough was commissioned by the National Trust.
Please see @ntbeningbrough for more information.
Photos: both taken by Laura Ellen Bacon
LAURA BACON’s @lauraellenbacon latest creation, entitled ‘Gathering My Thoughts,’ featured in issue 21, is part of ‘Ground/Work 2025,’ an exhibition of six commissioned outdoor sculptures at @clarkart in Williamstown, MA. It is the successor to a similar project hosted by the museum in 2020–21, this time with a focus on craft. For this edition, @glenn_adamson selected artists from Britain, Japan, Mali, Mexico, Switzerland, and the USA. Collectively, they demonstrate that the most sturdily traditional of artistic premises can be reimagined in new and surprising ways. On view through October, 12th, ’26. Issue 21, features a diary kept by BACON during the creation of this sculpture. Link in bio. 📷 @carltond
EXHIBITION TALK
‘Drawing with Willow - the work of Laura Ellen Bacon’
with Louise Lohr, Deputy Curator of Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Friday 10th April, 11.30am - midday
Beningbrough Hall, near York
Booking not needed. Talk is free of charge although admission fee to Beningbrough Hall applies (National Trust).
Join Louise Lohr, Deputy Curator of YSP, who will speak about my practice and approach.
The talk is part of a series talks at Beningbrough surrounding the latest exhibition, ‘Whispers of the Wilderness - Exploring Wilderness Gardens’ where my work can be seen until 12th April 2026.
I worked closely with Louise when I installed my exhibition, Into Being at YSP last year and I’m absolutely delighted that she is able to talk about my work here. (‘Into Being’ was on view in the Chapel at YSP in 2025 from 5th April until 7th September, supported by Hignell Gallery.)
Images here all my own. My work at Beningbrough was commissioned by the National Trust and includes large work made on site and selected works loaned from Hignell Gallery.
Please see @ntbeningbrough for more information.
Until April you can find my work at Beningbrough Hall, near York including some smaller works.
Shown here is a wall mounted work called, ‘Attached’ made in 2012. There is also a work of a similar scale called Cradle which is mounted beautifully over a mantelpiece. I made Cradle when my daughter was only 4 months old in those calm moments of time when she was asleep in the daytime.
A selection of drawings is included which were created in response to the gardens at Beningbrough. Hignell Gallery can be contacted for any sales enquiries @hignellgallery
The large installation shown is called Thicket and was made on site in the summer of 2025.
The work of varying scale is shown in the beautiful spaces at Beningbrough Hall as part of ‘Whispers of the Wilderness - Exploring Wilderness Gardens’ until April 2026.
@ntbeningbrough
See the link in bio for more information
Commissioned by the National Trust and featuring loaned works from Hignell Gallery @hignellgallery
Photos here taken myself
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‘Gathering My Thoughts’ sitting quietly under snowfall.
I love the dark blue of the sky in this image, I can feel the stillness under that winter sky.
Created in May 2025 at The Clark, Massachusetts, USA as part of Ground/work 2025, curated by Glenn Adamson.
I came to know this part of the woodland at The Clark quite well whilst making the work on site in Massachusetts and I still recall the birdsong, the light levels between the trees and the sways and creaks of the trees. I received this photo just before I went to bed and fell asleep imagining the insects and small animals that might be nestling down inside the work for winter.
(This piece of music I’ve used with the image by the way: Boy 1904 by Jónsi and Alex - it’s one of my favourite pieces of music that I listen to in December - seems imbued with the magic of winter light somehow)
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Photo 📸 by Dan Wallis, thank you Dan
