Flaxen: an Artist Talk with Alice Fox.
Join us on October 14, 2025 at 6pm for an inspiring conversation with the acclaimed texile artist Alice Fox.
To accomany her current exhibtion Flaxen showing at R-Space Gallery Lisburn, 27 September - 24 October Alice will share some more background and development process for the work in the show. Since 2017, Alice has been growing small plots of flax on her West Yorkshire allotment, gradually deepening her understanding of how growing and retting conditions affect the fibre. In 2024, she led a larger, collaborative flax-growing project at Kestle Barton in Cornwall, cultivating a 200-square-metre crop with the help of staff and volunteers. By sowing flax on the same day at both sites - 400 miles apart - she created an opportunity to compare environmental impacts on the plant. The resulting work is a collection of woven pieces that incorporate flax at various stages, from whole dried stems to unspun fibre, exploring both the plant’s strength and delicacy in a textured, structural celebration of flax.
We can't wait to learn more!
About the artist
Alice Fox is a UK-based textile and natural-fibre artist whose process-led, sustainability-centred practice springs from a deep personal engagement with the natural landscape. With a background in physical geography and nature conservation, she works intuitively with found, foraged, grown, and gathered materials, transforming them through natural dyes, stitch, weave, and soft basketry techniques into tactile surfaces, sculptural structures, and delicate vessels. Alice holds an MA in Creative Practice (Leeds Arts University) and a first-class BA in Contemporary Surface Design & Textiles (Bradford), and exhibits, lectures, and leads workshops both nationally and internationally.
