About
FOREST + FOUND
Forest + Found is a UK-based studio collective founded by artists Max Bainbridge and Abigail Booth. Living and working together since 2014, the studio functions as a site for material experimentation, collaboration and dialogue, while also supporting their individual artistic practices. Together they develop public commissions, exhibitions and curatorial projects that expand conversations around material-led practice. Their work has been exhibited widely across the UK and internationally.
ABIGAIL BOOTH
Abigail Booth’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses textiles, painting, sculpture, photography and print, exploring the emotional capacity of materials to carry and transmit intergenerational memory.
Working with textiles, earth, bone, hair, wood and charcoal, Booth creates tactile, and conceptually layered works that reflect on the relationship between the human body, memory and place. Found objects and pigments gathered from the landscapes she encounters are embedded directly into the surfaces of her works through processes including hand stitching, dyeing, painting and printmaking.
At the centre of Booth’s practice is an exploration of how domestic life, family histories and our relationship to the natural world shape personal and collective identity. Drawing on the transmission of memory across time and space, her work reflects on belonging within an evolving material culture and offers an intimate reflection on the complexities of everyday life.
MAX BAINBRIDGE
Working primarily with wood and metal, Bainbridge’s sculptural practice explores the physical presence of the carved object and its relationship to the natural body of the tree.
Using trees that have fallen where they once grew, Bainbridge maintains a direct connection between his sculptures and the landscapes from which they originate. Carved wood forms often sit in dialogue with cast metal elements, reflecting on vulnerability, protection and endurance within the natural world.
Through processes such as stripping bark, hollowing trunks and casting wood, Bainbridge considers how trees absorb and record their environments over time. His sculptures translate the tree’s monumental presence into an intimate human scale, offering quiet reflections on our fragile place within a continually changing ecosystem.
LONDON CRAFT WEEK 2026
For London Craft Week, 8 HOLLAND STREET | SOUTH OF THE RIVER presents Forest + Found, The House is Full of Ghosts at 243-245 Kennington Lane SE11.
