Alice Fox

Alice Fox is an artist based in West Yorkshire. Using her textiles-based skill set and techniques from soft basketry, she works with plant fibres and found objects. Alice makes unique sculptural and wall-based works, bringing different materials together to form tactile surfaces and structures. 

Establishing her allotment garden as a source of materials for her work provides a space where Alice can experiment, exploring the potential of what grows there - planted and wild - as well as other materials found on the plot. Plant fibres are produced, gathered and processed seasonally and are hard-won: There may only be a small batch of each type of usable material each year. As a result, each bundle of dandelion stems, bramble fibre or hand processed flax is enormously precious by its scarcity and the meaning attached to it through its sourcing and hand-processing. 

Following a first career in nature conservation, Alice studied BA Contemporary Surface Design and Textiles, followed by an MA in Creative Practice. She exhibits and teaches nationally and internationally. Alice has had work acquired by Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, Newcastle City Library, the International Quilt Museum, Lincoln Nebraska and the Ahmanson Collection, USA. She was commissioned by the clothing company TOAST and Kettles Yard, Cambridge for their Re-New project in 2019. She is published by Batsford (2015, 2022 and 2025) and has a number of self-published titles.