2 November 2024 – 5 January 2025
Thursday – Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm
Make, Somerset
‘Prophetic Land’ is a poetic response to the shifting nature of the complex landscape and environment that artists Max Bainbridge and Abigail Booth encountered in Braemar, Scotland, during their month-long residency with Make Hauser & Wirth in 2023. Immersed in the geological formations of the Cairngorms, they were struck by an increased ability to read the land and look beyond the mask of the picturesque and instead toward the environmental collapse of its ecosystems. Their works in ‘Prophetic Land’ are a reflection of the paradoxical role humans have had in tipping those ecological balances and the importance of looking to new ways of turning the tide of environmental collapse.
About the Artist-Makers
Max Bainbridge
Spanning a material language of wood and metal, Bainbridge’s work seeks a grounded presence in the physicality of the sculpted object through his enduring relationship to the natural body of the tree. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Soft Bodies,’ Dark Hearts, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, UK (2024); ‘Hollow Bodies,’ Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK (2024); ‘Shallow Lands,’ Informality Gallery, Oxfordshire, UK (2021 – 2022); and ‘Biophilia,’ Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK (2021). Selected group exhibitions include: ‘This Country,’ Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK (2024); ‘Objects of Contemplation,’ Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK (2024); ‘Material Beings,’ Cromwell Place, London, UK (2023); ‘Les Trames du Possible,’ Amelie Maison D’Art, Paris, France (2022); and ‘Common Thread,’ New Art Centre, Roche Court, UK (2020). Selected Awards include: QEST Scholarship, Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, UK (2019).
Abigail Booth
Working across a material language of quilt-making, painting and print, Booth’s practice explores the emotional capacity of the domestic quilt and textile object to embody dreams and memory across time and space. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Soft Bodies, Dark Hearts,’ Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, UK (2024); ‘Shallow Lands,’ Informality Gallery, Oxfordshire, UK (2021 – 2022); and ‘Biophilia,’ Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK (2021). Selected group exhibitions include: ‘This Country,’ Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK (2024); ‘Objects of Contemplation,’ Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK (2024); ‘Crafted By Nature,’ Radnor, New York NY (2023); ‘Material Beings,’ Cromwell Place, London, UK (2023); ‘Les Trames du Possible,’ Amelie Maison D’Art, Paris, France (2022); and ‘Common Thread,’ New Art Centre, Roche Court, UK (2020). Selected Awards include: Develop Your Creative Practice Fund, Arts Council England, UK (2024); QEST Scholarship, Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, UK (2020).
In 2014, both artists established Forest + Found, an art collective with whom they work on public commissions, exhibitions and curatorial projects.
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