Elizabeth Benson
This collection explores how fibre can behave like terrain, holding pressure, shifting under tension, and revealing slow, geological transformations.
Each work begins with ecological colour gathered from the landscapes I move through, allowing the palette to carry the conditions and atmospheres of place.
Through layering, compression, and controlled tension, the materials settle into forms that echo strata, sediment, and the quiet accumulation of force.
Across the collection, I’m interested in the point where textile becomes sculptural: where structure, colour, and material behaviour converge to create small, self‑contained terrains.
The works trace how subtle pressures leave their mark, how materials remember touch, and how transformation occurs gradually through labour and environmental influence.
Surface Tension sits within this wider exploration, focusing on the delicate threshold where tension gathers and the landscape of the material begins to shift.
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