Derbyshire artist and Design Factory designer/maker member Laura Ellen Bacon is well known for her site-specific, nest-like sculptures, having created works across the country and beyond, for clients such as the BBC and recently for the Crafts Council at Origin 2009.

To mark 10 years of her practice, Laura has created ‘Woven Space’ at the invitation of the Duke and Duchess and the Chatsworth House Trust. An ambitious project to create a woven willow outdoor ‘space’ deep inside a cluster of old yew trees, it offers visitors the chance to step ‘into the weave’.

The work can be viewed from Sunday 14th March - Friday 30th April 2010. (Entry price and opening times apply).

Laura says “I have been weaving sculptural forms in the landscape for several years, but I have never had the opportunity to create work that focuses purely on the internal view and the experience of being inside a woven interior. I have aimed for the viewer to experience the space as much as just seeing it, intending for the work to carry notions of enclosure, dens and nesting."

The Duke of Devonshire said "I am thrilled with the fascinating woven work created by Laura Ellen Bacon, now completed amongst some venerable yews in the garden at Chatsworth. I am sure that our visitors, this season and next, will be as intrigued by it.  It will be a popular addition to the works of art to be found throughout the garden.”

For further information, visit http://www.chatsworth.org/attractions/sculpture and click on Woven Space.