Ruby Taylor

My work is materials-led and rooted in place. Creating with plants, plant fibres and wild clay; concerned with origins and connection and the immersive, sensory experience of making. I create sculptural land art and smaller scale vessel forms.

Immersed in the whole cycle of production: harvesting in a sustainable way, processing the raw materials, I forage materials from woods, hedgerows and from the land where I live in Sussex, UK.

In the making of my work, a dialogue emerges between myself (my hands), these wild materials and the place. I’m driven by a desire to live a reciprocal life with our ecological relations, alongside the compulsion to create with my hands.

I’m also an educator offering Wild Basketry and Wild Pottery courses that embody this ethos.

Author photo credit: Bethany Hobbs