Abigail Booth

PAST SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

SOLO SHOW

2019
Walking The Line, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen

2018
Walking The Line, Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin

Outland, Egg, London

Realising Landscape, The Space, CARO, Bruton

2016
Objects of Utility, INKU, London

GROUP SHOW

2020

Common Thread, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury

2020

Collect 2020, Somerset House, London

2019
Pairings, Jaggedart, London

Re-New, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

The Art of Gathering, New Craftsman Gallery,St Ives

The Art of Boro, 8 Holland St, London

Jerwood Makers Open 19, Jerwood Space, London

Thread: Contemporary Textiles, Rheged Centre, Cumbria

Scorched, Sarah Myerscough, London

Wood: The Living Material, London Craft Week, London

Collect 2019, Jaggedart, Saatchi Gallery, London

Jerwood Makers Open, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester

2018
Levelling Traditions, Make | Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton

Jerwood Drawing Prize 17, Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge

Piecework Collective, Ludlow Studios, New York

Ready Made Go, ACE Hotel, London

Material Wood: Art & Design, Messums Wiltshire, Tisbury

Fine Art Quilt Masters, Festival of Quilts, Birmingham

Jerwood Drawing Prize 17, Vane Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

Showcase, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield

Cabinet of Curiosities II, Jaggedart, London

The Home of Craftsmanship, Alfred Dunhill, Bourdon House, London

Jerwood Drawing Prize 17, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury

Arbour, Jaggedart, London

Jerwood Drawing Prize 17, The Edge, Bath University, Bath

Collect Open, Saatchi Gallery, London

Assortment X, Jaggedart, London

Maker + Place: Sotheby's Auction, Sotheby's,  New York

Jerwood Drawing Prize 17, East Gallery NUA, Norwich

New Truth to Materials: Wood, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, Ditchling
2017

Unearthed (film), Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Through the Woods, Jaggedart, London

Spoonful, Flow Gallery, London

Jerwood Drawing Prize 17, Jerwood Space, London

Piecework Collective, 402 West 13th Street, New York

Chromatic Geography, Craft Ontario Gallery, Toronto

London Craft Week, Craft Central Gallery, London

New Quilting, Rheged Centre, Cumbria 

MAKE, Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin
2016

Showcase, Craft Central, London

New Designers: One Year On, London

Clerkenwell Design Week, Craft Central, London

Showcase, William Morris Gallery, London

AWARDS

2019
Jerwood Makers Open, Jerwood Arts

2018
London Creative Network, Cockpit Arts

2017
Hothouse, Crafts Council

2016
British Design Award: Craft, Elle Decoration

Best New Body of Work, Craft Central

RESIDENCES

2019
Harp Cottage, Old Radnor

2017
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Cold Press Gallery, Holt

CONFERENCES

2019
In Conversation: The Art of Boro, 8 Holland St, Bath & London

Making Conversation: Forest + Found and Tanya Harrod . Jerwood Arts . London

Textile Artists in Conversation, Ray Stitch, London

Craftsmanship in Wood, London Craft Week, London

2018
Landscape in Practice, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton

Collect Open Makers in Conversation, Saatchi Gallery, London

Next Generation Craft, Saatchi Gallery, London

2017
Exhibition Tour: Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space . London

How We Make Things, Q&A Hole & Corner, London Design Fair, London

The Future of Objects, Q&A Forest + Found, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

2016
London’s Underground Artisans, Q&A Selvedge Magazine, V&A, London

London’s Underground Artisans, Q&A Selvedge Magazine, New Designers, London

PUBLICATIONS

2017
The Wild Dyer, Abigail Booth, Kyle Books

2016
The Urban Woodsman, Max Bainbridge, Kyle Books

PRESS / BIBLIOGRAPHY

PAPER

2020
Embroidery Magazine, Cut To The Bone

2019
Jerwood Makers Open Catalogue High Winds

Selvedge Magazine Pieced Together

2018
Elle Decoration Weaves For The Wall

Home Magazine France Woodworkers: The New Artisans

Batsford Books Textile Folk Art

Modern Rustic Artisan Profile

Das Ideale Heim The Woodworkers

The Telegraph Magazine Buy Now ... Keep Forever

2017
The Sunday Telegraph Nature's Palette

Elle Decoration The Collectibles

Berkeley Made Not Manufactured

2016
Embroidery Magazine Letting Nature Take Its Course

Elle Decoration British Design Awards

N by Norwegian Modern Woodsman

EKKB Designer Profile

Selvedge Magazine Binding Knots

Crafts Magazine Talent Spot

Vogue UK Meet The Makers

House & Garden Where The Wild Things Are

2015
Country Living Urban Artisans

DIGITAL PRESS

2019
Toast Magazine An Exhibition at Kettle’s Yard

Toast Magazine RE-NEW: Meet The Artists

ThisIsTomorrow Jerwood Makers Open

Buzz Mag Art Preview: Walking The Line

2018
Vogue What Do You Look Like As A Quilt?

Hole & Corner My Hole & Corner

Hole & Corner Realising Landscape w/ Forest + Found

Hole & Corner Interview

Zetteler Collect Open Q&A

2016
Frances Corner Forest + Found at in-ku

COADG Interview

Elle Decoration Name to Know

2015
Side Story Putting The Art in Craft

INTERVIEW RADIO

2017 
BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour

BBC Radio London Jo Good

2016
BBC Radio London Jo Good

Woolful Podcast Episode 46

INTERVENTIONS CONFERENCES

2019
Abstract Quilt Making, West Dean College . Sussex

Improvisational Patchwork, Ray Stitch . London

Traditional Hand Quilting, Ray Stitch . London

Traditional Hand Quilting, Yorkshire Sculpture Park . Wakefield

2018
Abstract Quilt Making, Selvedge Magazine x Chateau Dumas . France

2017
Autumn Foraging: Natural Dyes, Botany Shop . London

Texture & Form in Wood, West Dean College . Sussex

Autumn Foraging: Natural Dyes, West Dean College . Sussex

MA Artists’ Teachers Scheme, Oxford Brookes . Pitt Rivers Museum

An Ideal Syllabus, Milton Keynes Arts Centre . MK

Power Plant, Milton Keynes Arts Centre . MK

Experimental Object Making, Pitt Rivers Museum . Oxford

Inside Out Kitchen: Heritage Craft Project, Milton Keynes Art Centre . MK

Experimental Maquette Making, Burberry Maker’s House . London

2016
Spoon Carving, SMUG . London